Critical minerals might be flowing underground, right beneath your feet! 

That is great news. 

Because the minerals we need for clean technologies like electrical vehicles, solar panels and digital screens, often come from dirty, unsustainable mining processes concentrated in a few countries.  

John Worth, the CEO of Geo40, extracts minerals like lithium and silica from fluids, either from geothermal plants or other underground resources, without any rock crushing involved. 

Hear his story in the latest episode of our podcast, ‘The Switch – to a green economy.’ Watch it on YouTube, listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. 

Did you know that these minerals can be found in fluids?

Cutting offshore wind costs IKEA style! 

That’s what Sam Kanner and his company Aikido have set out to do. 

80% of the world's potential wind energy potential exists over deeper water, where the wind platforms need to be floating.  

There’s just one problem: building, assembling and installing large, commercial-scale floating wind farms is costly and takes a long time, up to 10 years. 

Aikido’s solution: a foldable, submersible technology that aims to build and assemble offshore wind farms twice as fast, just using a third of the space needed today. Almost like a flat pack from IKEA ... 

Watch this episode on YouTube or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to hear more. 

Did you know floating wind energy held such great potential? 

#WindPower #InnovativeTechnology #GreenInnovation #CleanEnergy 

Heat pumps are a key technology to get to net zero and we need an estimated 400 million more of them by 2030. Kensa Group is leading the way in the UK, decarbonizing heating in whole city blocks with networked heat pumps.  Tamsin Lishman, CEO of Kensa Group, is our guest in the latest episode of our podcast 'The Switch – to a green economy'. She says this is a huge opportunity not only to decarbonize, but also to fight fuel poverty, since the end solution is more affordable than traditional gas or electric heating systems. 

Watch this episode on YouTube or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. How do you heat or cool the house where you live? 

“Carbon is the trash of the climate era”.  

Amy Harder explains climate change and climate tech so anyone can understand it. Deciphering those complexities is the overarching

mission at Cipher News, where she is the Executive Editor.  

We invited her to our latest episode of our podcast 'The Switch – to a green economy', to talk about, among other things, why knowledge about

 the energy transition needs to increase.   

One major reason, she said, is that we need to be able to get clear and concise answers to questions and concerns around the roll-out of clean

 energy. 

Cipher News is founded by Bill Gates’ network Breakthrough Energy.  

Here are a few links to articles on Cipher News that we mention in the show: 

https://ciphernews.com/articles/paper-weighing-down-europes-renewables-push/ 

https://ciphernews.com/articles/a-treasure-hunt-for-underground-hydrogen-is-on/ 

https://ciphernews.com/articles/welcome-to-our-wild-and-wonky-climate-future-5/ 

https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/boiling-point 

28% less greenhouse gas emissions. 

That’s what Baker Hughes achieved only three years after committing to a net-zero goal by 2050. Coming from a history of over 100 years serving the oil and gas industry with drilling equipment, they were one of the first companies in their sector to announce such a target.  

Allyson Anderson Book is Baker Hughes’ Chief Sustainability Officer and our guest on the latest episode of The Switch – to a green economy.  

Three main activities got their emissions down: 

• Increased energy efficiency  
• Changing to a low-carbon vehicle fleet 
• More renewable and zero-carbon electricity 

This first step on the road to net-zero has focused on the company’s own operations. 

Changing the emissions of their suppliers and customers will be a tougher nut to crack. But to make change happen, you have to start in your own backyard. 

Watch on YouTube, listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. 

Were you surprised to hear an oil service company having a net-zero goal? 

You drive your electric car to your friend’s place to have dinner. You charge it at your friend's house, but the bill is sent to you. Isn’t that clever? It will soon be a reality. 

We have more and more things at home that can produce and/or store energy, like solar panels, electrical vehicles, heat pumps.In this new energy landscape, we will all help offload the grid at times, storing energy in our vehicles or heat pumps and selling it back to the grid when it’s needed. 

But for this to work seamlessly, it takes a digital system of trust. For your car to be able to charge at your friend’s house, it needs a digital identity and a safe way of sharing data. 

This is what Sebastiaan Coppenholle specializes in. He is the Innovation Project Manager at 50 Hertz in Germany. Hear him describe the future of energy in this episode of The Switch – to a green economy. 

There’s a lot of talk of the green transition. But what does it mean and how far have we come?

Kristina Hagström-Ilievska and Alexander Helling share their most important take-aways from the report State of the Transition from Breakthrough Energy, Bill Gates’ innovation fund.

Tune in for an overview of where we stand, and what the biggest challenges are in energy, manufacturing, agriculture, transport and buildings.

Some interesting facts:

Watch the latest episode of The Switch – to a green economy on YouTube, listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Please share your thoughts and comments about this episode and what you can’t let go of.

Together with his brothers Magnus and Gustaf, Erik Brandberg makes up the investment team behind the Swedish family company Gullspång Invest.

They invest to change the world. Today he is here to explain to us how investors can use their money as effectively as possible, to change whole systems. Why? To speed up the switch to a greener planet, of course. Welcome, Erik!

Dive deep into the heart of COP28 with "The Switch" special episode. Join us for an insightful exploration into the events that unfolded and the lasting impact it holds.

“I have been a shopaholic. But now I have reinvented myself.”   After reading a UN report about climate change, influencer Anitha Clemence with 58.000 followers on Instagram, decided to stop consuming clothes. First, for three months. Then she expanded that shopping stop to a year.  “I felt that I was a bad role model, both for my followers and for my kids”, Anitha says.  She wants people to think more about: 

• How fast fashion destroys the environment 
• How we consume things we don’t need, just to throw them away 
• How we associate happiness and self-worth with having the latest outfit 

 The result? Praise, but also criticism and a loss of income.    Still, Anitha says it’s been totally worth it.   Watch this episode on YouTube, listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.   What about you? Does this make you feel inspired? Ashamed? Happy?