Co-founder & CEO, Dioxycle | Breakthrough Energy Fellow | L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talent | 30U30
It was great to spend some time with Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale Capital), Manik Suri (GlacierGrid) and Harry McCracken (Fast Company) and bring the climate topic on Collision Conference center stage. I was in particular excited to highlight how 1) energy efficiency and 2) scalability (in particular through modularity) are paramount criteria in energy transition technologies. With the available renewable power expected to remain a bottleneck in the next decade as electrification (and computing power requirements) intensify, Dioxycle is set to develop the most energy-efficient route to make ethylene from recycled carbon with the ultimate potential to displace over 1% of the world's CO2 emission. Our modular approach of building cells that assemble into stacks, which can in turn be parallelized, also sets us on track for ultra-high CapEx reduction over time. By building 1,000 of a single unit, we gain 1,000 times more opportunities to learn and improve, rather than constructing a single plant that is 1,000 times larger and we've seen the benefit of this approach through the solar revolution.
