In this episode, we sit down with Trevor Best, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Syzygy Plasmonics, to explore how his company is reinventing chemical refining with light-driven reactors powered by renewable electricity. Spun out of Rice University and built on decades of nanophotonics research, Syzygy’s breakthrough photocatalyst replaces heat with light to enable ultra-efficient chemical reactions for green hydrogen and carbon conversion. Trevor shares how his oil and gas background prepared him for entrepreneurship, what it takes to pilot breakthrough energy technologies, how far Houston’s innovation ecosystem has come, where to find top talent, and which climate technologies he believes will have the biggest global impact—plus a few unexpected lessons along the way.

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