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Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To

Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To

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  • The Most Important Chemical You've Never Thought About

    The Most Important Chemical You've Never Thought About
    Apr 13 2026

    Chlorine is in your pipes, your microchips, your drinking water and somehow nobody talks about it. Roxanna Delima, Co-founder and CBO at Rushnu, breaks down why this overlooked chemical is critical to US manufacturing and how her team is flipping the script on a 100 year old industry by using heat instead of electricity and turning waste carbon into actual product. No government subsidy dependence, no gigaton fantasies, just hard tech with a real business model.

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    0:00 Intro and background on Roxanna
    2:05 What is Rushnu and the chlorine industry
    4:22 The product and why chlorine matters
    6:36 How traditional chlor alkali works and its problems
    8:01 Rushnu's thermochemical approach
    9:30 How costs are cut by 60%
    11:32 Pilot site at Silicon Valley Clean Water
    14:06 Texas connections and TotalEnergies partnership
    15:58 Carbon capture without the gigaton hype
    19:26 Why VC funding models are broken for hard tech
    21:09 Carbon capture as a polarizing topic
    24:50 Building a profitable business from the start
    27:17 Startup advantages over big industry
    29:01 Inside the Chlorine Institute conference
    31:08 Chlorine safety and the Ohio train derailment
    32:10 Energy transition and realism
    34:31 The 60 second chlorine elevator pitch
    36:13 AI in the chlorine industry
    36:45 What the future looks like for Rushnu

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  • The Country With the Most Energy in the World Can't Keep Up With Its Own Grid

    The Country With the Most Energy in the World Can't Keep Up With Its Own Grid
    Apr 7 2026

    David Holt, President of Consumer Energy Alliance, sits down to unpack 20 years of fighting for affordable, reliable energy for regular Americans. From NIMBYism and lazy politics to the data center power surge, nuclear's comeback, carbon capture, and why the price of eggs is actually an energy story, this one covers a lot of ground and makes it all make sense.

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    00:00 - What is Consumer Energy Alliance
    01:12 - Energy affordability and who it hits hardest
    03:14 - Politics, NGOs, and policy by soundbite
    05:34 - You can have clean energy and oil and gas
    08:31 - New England's self-inflicted energy crisis
    10:04 - Term-limited politicians and long-term problems
    12:19 - Gas prices and what consumers actually misunderstand
    14:41 - US energy self-sufficiency and geopolitical insulation
    16:42 - Reshoring, AI, and the new energy demand reality
    18:48 - Breaking down the Biden energy policy
    23:41 - Infrastructure deficits and the permitting war
    26:42 - How data centers should pay for their power
    29:51 - Inside data centers and why they use so much energy
    33:35 - Nuclear is back and it's actually cool
    37:27 - Texas, nuclear, and energy diversity
    41:10 - Carbon capture and community education
    44:28 - The next 10 to 15 years of energy change
    47:28 - What every American should know about energy
    49:29 - Energy Day festival in Houston

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  • The Hidden Energy Crisis Powering Your ChatGPT Search

    The Hidden Energy Crisis Powering Your ChatGPT Search
    Mar 30 2026

    Shawn Cutter, Founder & CEO of EnergiAcres, went from sixth-generation Ohio farmer to Discovery Channel reality TV star to selling his oil and gas software startup to Quorum before Series A. Now he's building circular energy infrastructure that pairs power plants with data centers and greenhouses to make energy count twice. We get into the grid crisis, the cloud vs on-prem debate, and whether data centers will ever make it to space.

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    00:00 - Intro and guest background
    01:24 - Sixth-generation farmer and family oil and gas roots
    02:39 - The Discovery Channel reality TV show
    07:44 - Building an oil and gas software startup
    10:45 - Getting acquired by Quorum before Series A
    15:39 - Life inside a big company post-acquisition
    19:15 - Mistakes, pivots, and finding his way back
    21:49 - What EnergiAcres actually does
    24:07 - The data center power crisis.
    28:20 - Energy mix and fixing the grid
    31:13 - How data centers evolved and why power demand exploded
    36:27 - Cloud vs on-prem and the cost reality
    39:28 - Water usage and cooling problems
    41:54 - EnergiAcres' greenhouse and circular energy model
    45:23 - SMRs, space data centers, and what comes next

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