Beyond Lithium
Episodes
32 | Circular-Economy Truths, Purple Batteries, Low-V Backbone, & 45X — with Roger Miksad, President & Executive Director of Battery Council International
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🪨 What product is the cornerstone of the US economy, enabling workers to commute every single day? What is the real trick to a truly circular econo...
31 | FBNA, Macro Shifts in Market/Policy/45X, Season 2 kickoff — with Russ Weed, President of CleanTech Strategies
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
📈 Are Flow Batteries poised to break out in North America? How do AI and data centers compare to electric utilities in their priorities? What is FB...
30 | Doug Wilson — Sr. Fire Plans Examiner, Scottsdale AZ Fire Department
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚒🧯 What’s the best strategy to prevent future battery fires? What type of energy storage system (ESS) does the fire department think is best? ...
29 | Constantin Eis & Giovanni Damato — CEO & US President, CMBlu Energy
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🐳 Why doesn’t Nature store energy using metal? And what does it use? And how many kWh of energy per liter is stored in a Blue Whale?! For answers...
28 | Arvin Ganesen — CEO, Fourth Power
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🧗♂️ What is Fourth Power’s Guinness World record? Can we make renewables just as dispatchable as fossil fuels? And how is a battery like a...
27 | Ben Kaun — Chief Commercial Officer, Inlyte Energy
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🔋 What’s a 50 year old battery technology, made from abundant elements, with no risk of thermal runaway and no cycling degradation? Why was it or...
26 | Dr. Daniel Howard (Redux) — CEO, Quantum Energy, Inc.
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
📊 What is impact, and how is it quantified? Why are 87% of clean energy projects severely delayed or failing? If current electricity consumption is...
25 | Mike Berger — Director of Product Engineering, Stryten Energy
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🚀 “It’s not rocket science,” someone once told Mike Berger, Stryten Energy’s Director of Product Engineering. "Yes," he agreed. “It’s p...
24 | Kieran Claffey — Senior Research Engineer, Southern Company
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🏭 For the electric utilities, what is the most important metric for energy storage technology? What is the rule of 17%? What is dunkelflaute?! For ...
23 | Cullen Quine — Postdoctoral Researcher at NREL & Co-founder of Activated Energy
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🐝 What is >100X more energy dense (33 kWh/kg) than Li-ion batteries (0.3kW/kg), and why is it so hard to store it at room temperature? What is a...
22 | Ben Bollinger — VP of Strategic Initiatives, Malta, Inc.
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🌡 What's the difference between a heat pump and a heat engine? What is synchronous inertia? What are the four horses pulling the chariot of a start...
21 | Matt Raiford & Alyssa McQuilling — Sr. Technical Manager & Research and Innovation Manager, Consortium for Battery Innovation
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🚗 What is the most recycled product in the world, with 99.7% being collected into the recycling stream? Where does it get used beyond the starter /...
20 | Brendan Serapiglia & Jason Feldmar — Partners, Gates & Cooper LLP
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
💡 Can you trademark a sound? Why can you only patent "non-obvious" inventions? Who decides what is non-obvious? What is Enablement and how does the...
19 | Matt Harper — Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Invinity Energy Systems
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
♾ That's right: Invinity, with a V for vanadium. How many square meters does it take to set up 1 MWh of vanadium flow batteries? For the answer, we ...
18 | Matt Millard — Founder & CEO, CapyBara Energy
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🐻 The capybara is nature's ultimate collaborator, existing peacefully in diverse global ecosystems. That harmonious disposition is exactly what Cap...
17 | Mark Wanamaker — Business Development Manager, Lockheed Martin Energy Storage
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0️⃣ What's your favorite zero-emission load following dispatchable resource to enable green baseload? What even *is* green baseload?! For this epi...
16 | Leah Kuritzky, PhD — Head of PV Operations, Antora Energy
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🔥 Is it just a glorified toaster? Not quite: At more than 1500 °C (2700 °F), the carbon blocks inside Antora's unique thermal batteries are resis...
15 | Mike Marshak — Founder & CEO, Otoro Energy
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🍣🐟 "Operating the electric grid without energy storage is sort of like operating a sushi restaurant without a refrigerator." Tune into this epis...
14 | Onas Bolton — Founder & CEO, Octet Scientific
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
⚡ Which metal was used as far back as 1799 when Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, the original battery? Hint: It's still in use today in s...
13 | Mahesh Morjaria — Executive VP of Plant Operational Technology, Terabase Energy
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
💯 Pop Quiz! Define the following: EPCs, SCADA systems, upregulation, downregulation, frequency regulation, spinning reserves, timeshifting, and dis...
12 | Ilja Pawel — Expert Consultant, Renewable Energy & Storage Technology
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
♻️ What does "sustainability" mean to you? How do you put a price on the safety of a battery? If we want society to adopt renewable energy, why is...
11 | Doris Hafenbradl — CTO & Managing Director, Electrochaea
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🦠 You've heard of two major domains of life: Bacteria (think E. coli) and Eukaryotes (like yeast, plants, animals, etc). Do you know what the third...
10 | Dr. Tyler Farnsworth & Tom Borak — Head of Technical and Product Development & Head of Commercial Development, MERGE Chemistry
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🧪 What are the critical chemicals that need to be scaled for energy storage right now? In 5 years, what battery chemistry is going to be winning in...
9 | Michael Peither — Cofounder & CTO, VoltStorage
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🤺 How competitive is the energy storage market? On this episode, Cofounder & CTO of VoltStorage Michael Peither joins, as always, BioZen's CEO ...
8 | James Werbe — Founder & CEO, Wayside Energy
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
💦 Battery immersion cooling! What does that mean? Today's episode brings James Werbe of Wayside Energy for a conversation with BioZen's CEO Nate Ki...
7 | Mark Higgins — CCO & President North America, Redflow
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
💤 Have you ever heard of "hibernation mode" for a battery? For this episode, BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer is joined by Mark Higgins of Redflow (ASX...
6 | Kristina Jansen — Project Development Manager, RAI Energy
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
☀️ For this episode, Kristina "Kristy" Jansen joins the show with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer. Kristy brings two decades of experiece to cleantec...
5 | Tim Montague — President, Clean Power Consulting
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Cleantech expert and Clean Power Hour podcast guru Tim Montague joins (as always) BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer. The discussion ranges from the...
4 | Dr. Daniel Howard — CEO, Quantum Energy, Inc.
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
🧮 If US ratepayers spend an extra $25B/year towards buildout of 90% renewable generation in 2035, can you guess how many $Billions are saved in hum...
3 | Russ Weed — President, CleanTech Strategies [2 of 2]
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
🏭 Russ and Nate continue the discussion, getting Russ' input the ongoing challenges in energy storage technology and deployment, the maturity of di...
2 | Russ Weed — President, CleanTech Strategies [1 of 2]
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
💵 Wait, how many billions of dollars? Russ—who hails from Seattle and brings a decade of experience in the energy storage industry, including so...
1 | Craig Lewis — Executive Director, Clean Coalition
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
⚡ What's at the end of the transmission line? Craig sits down with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer to discuss community grid energy storage, and he sha...