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41. Fred Rostami (GreenLIB) on battery materials recovery

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Fred Rostami of GreenLIB talks about recovering and recycling materials from lithium batteries.

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  • (00:00) Introduction
  • (00:33) Fred’s career path
  • (01:21) GreenLIB’s elevator pitch
  • (01:55) Common and state-of-the-art battery materials recovery tech
  • (03:42) Technical and economic challenges associated with materials recovery
  • (04:43) Recovery vs. recycling
  • (05:16) Recovery/Recycling vs. extraction of new materials
  • (07:06) Innovations in improving efficacy and efficiency of materials recovery
  • (08:14) Factors that make innovation slow
  • (08:58) GreenLIB’s technology
  • (12:52) Regulatory environment
  • (14:29) Commercialization 
  • (17:26) GreenLIB’s team
  • (20:52) Entrepreneurial journey
  • (22:03) Challenges, uncertainties, risks
  • (23:58) Mistakes
  • (26:01) Fun aspects of being an entrepreneur
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