# What It’s Really Going to Take to Save the Planet: Lessons from 2024

- Show: [Hardware to Save a Planet](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet)
- Published: 2025-01-02
- Length: 27m
- Episode: 69
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024
- Listen: https://podcasts.fame.so/e/68rr5x78-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024

## Summary

Host Dylan Garrett presents a year-end review of 'Hardware to Save a Planet,' featuring clips from eight climate tech founders. The episode highlights specific hardware innovations from companies including Avalanche Energy, C-bound, Torrev Motors, Clean Crop Technologies, Airton Energy, Kala Systems, Renewal Energy, Yardstick, Matter, and Impossible Metals. Guests discuss the engineering challenges of scaling fusion, maritime carbon capture, rare-earth-free motors, soil carbon measurement devices, and underwater mining robots.

## Chapters

- [0:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=3) Introduction: 2024 Climate Context and Show Overview
- [0:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=3) Avalanche Energy: Small Modular Fusion Reactors
- [4:29](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=269) C-bound: Onboard Maritime Carbon Capture and Fuel Economics
- [6:34](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=394) Torrev Motors: Rare-Earth-Free Electric Motors for Aerospace and EVs
- [9:24](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=564) Clean Crop Technologies: Plasma Seed Treatment for Climate Resilience
- [12:25](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=745) Airton Energy: Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers for Infrastructure Gaps
- [14:41](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=881) Kala Systems: Intelligent Heat Pump Water Heaters and Scaling Strategy
- [16:38](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=998) Renewal Energy: Repurposing Oil Wells for Gravity Energy Storage
- [18:34](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=1114) Yardstick: Hardware Challenges in Soil Carbon Measurement
- [23:09](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-01-02-what-its-really-going-to-take-to-save-the-planet-lessons-from-2024#t=1389) Matter and Impossible Metals: Microplastic Filtration and Seafloor Mining

## Topics

- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Manufacturing partners & offshoring](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/manufacturing-partners)
- [Sustainability & circular products](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sustainability-and-circularity)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Avalanche Energy (company)
- C-bound (company)
- Torrev Motors (company)
- Clean Crop Technologies (company)
- Airton Energy (company)
- Kala Systems (company)
- Renewal Energy (company)
- Yardstick (company)
- Matter (company)
- Impossible Metals (company)
- Canon (company)
- Makita (company)

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