Our first episode covering sodium-ion batteries featured a cautious take on the chemistry: Back in February Adrian Yao, founder of Stanford’s STEER program, explained the challenges of reaching competitive energy density and costs, especially given the falling price of LFP. Still, sodium-ion chemistries are picking up steam, thanks largely to growing deploym ... Show More
Mar 2025
Flexible, fast-responding and reliable – the growth of energy storage seems unstoppable. What could possibly go wrong?
Charge when it’s cheap, when energy is abundant, and discharge when the energy is needed. The role of energy storage will be critical to the transition to low-carbon technologies. It’s an exciting time in the industry, with spectacular growth in battery storage markets in the US ... Show More
57 m
Apr 2025
Keeping cleantech investment alive | With technological, economic and policy challenges mounting, how can we keep energy innovation on track?
These are hard times for investment in low-carbon energy. The lack of progress in international climate negotiations, threats to policy support, and an increased awareness of the challenges of decarbonization, have created some strong headwinds. Everyone agrees that more breakthr ... Show More
53m 10s
Apr 2025
What do the tariff wars mean for low-carbon energy? | Recorded live at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit
“With great uncertainty comes great opportunity”, says Abby Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, in this special episode of the Energy Gang, recorded live at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit.Is she right? And what are those oppo ... Show More
30m 13s
Dec 2024
How Diamond Cooling Could Power the Future of AI, with Akash Systems
In this episode of No Priors, Sarah sits down with Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell, founders of Akash Systems, a company pioneering diamond-based cooling technology for semiconductors used in space applications and large-scale AI data centers. Felix and Ty discuss how their backgro ... Show More
42m 21s
Sep 9
Nuclearn gets $10.5M to help the nuclear industry embrace AI, plus ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe
Nuclearn got its start when the founders were working at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station just west of Phoenix. They had been experimenting with ways to streamline various repetitive tasks first from a data science perspective then with more advanced AI models. Also, ReO ... Show More
8m 13s
Oct 1
The World Reacts to Sora 2, Slop vs. Farming Debate | Reece Chowdhry, Jim Gao, Fan-Yun Sun, Carl Pei, Shehzan Maredia, Victor Riparbelli, William Fedus, Jayanth Madheswaran
(05:21) - Slop vs. Farm Debate (11:40) - Ben Thompson's Sora 2 Analysis (35:37) - The Timeline Reacts to Sora 2 (01:34:31) - The Stablecoin Duopoly is Ending (01:42:14) - Reece Chowdhry, Founding Partner of Concept Ventures, recently announced the launch of their latest $88 milli ... Show More
3h 17m
Sep 15
Throwback: Role Modelling Vulnerability with Kensho’s Bhavesh Dayalji
What does allyship look like when you’re leading a company? For Bhavesh Dayalji, it often means being honest about the challenges of balancing work and family, and choosing to show up as a husband and father first. This is a throwback episode, but Bhavesh’s reflections on leaders ... Show More
25m 46s
Jan 2025
3164: Breaking Data Silos: How Hammerspace is Powering AI Storage and Hybrid Cloud
As part of the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, I had the opportunity to sit down with David Flynn, CEO of Hammerspace, to explore how the company is redefining the future of enterprise data storage. At a time when AI-driven workloads and hybrid cloud computing are pushing storag ... Show More
24m 26s