Found Energy

Our aluminum-powered industrial decarbonization technology is in the spotlight! Found Energy is featured in the Boston Globe. Read our story about our mission to decarbonize heavy industry with aluminum fuels. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eZzHXHgR “The Found Energy system could replace fossil fuel with aluminum-generated hydrogen, a gas that burns at up to 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but produces no waste carbon. Instead of using barrels of oil, you truck in refined aluminum, which is safer and easier to transport than volatile fossil fuels and doesn’t release carbon and toxic gases. Feed the aluminum into a Found Energy reactor for heat and hydrogen, then send the aluminum oxide back to the smelter for ‘recharging.’ Dan Steingart, chair of the department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University, said Found Energy is onto something. 'I’m a big fan of using metals to store energy, particularly something like aluminum,’ Steingart said. ‘Metals are easy to transport and they’re easy to store.’” Read on ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eZzHXHgR #FoundEnergy #aluminum #climatetech #cleanenergy #industrialdecarbonization Via Boston Globe Media and Hiawatha Bray

Last weekend, I got the opportunity to represent Northeastern University at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Confernece held in San Diego as the student chapter President! This year, our chapter was awarded with the Outstanding Student Chapter Award which I was able to receive alongside Courtney Pfluger and Dom Pizzarella on behalf of our student chapter. Between last fall semester and this fall semester, the Northeastern AIChE student chapter has hosted one event a week ranging from professional development, networking, alumni events, company spotlights, socials, etc. I am excited to continue building our student chapter and see how it evolves by the next National Conference! I also got the opportunity to meet many of the other student chapter Presidents from the Northeast region as we sat down to discuss our respective chapters. We offered advice, talked of our experiences thus far, and discussed the regional conference in the spring. Amongst all the excitement of the conference, I sat down to listen to many technical sessions. Of the most notable was a talk on rheology by Clara Gomez and Tanja Tomkovic. I was able to take learning from their session and implement the ideas to my work at my Found Energy co-op! Overall, this was an amazing experience that I was glad to be a part of!

We’re excited to welcome a new cohort of Co-Ops from Northeastern University and Tufts University: Sebastian Kockler (Chemical Engineer), Maria Dariotis (Chemical Engineer), Mia Wasilewski (R&D Chemist), InJun Jeon (Mechanical Engineer), and William Randall (Software Engineer)! 🎉 From day one, they've jumped in and started making valuable contributions across a variety of projects. We're looking forward to seeing even more from them as they grow and learn with us! 👏 #aluminum #cleanenergy #industrialdecarbonization #growth #empowerment

I am excited to announce that my second Co-op will be with Found Energy on the Material Development Team! I'd like to thank Diana Giulietti, Ingrid Guha, Umema Khan, and Kimberly Wittenberg Lurie for helping me through the recruitment process as well as the folks at Saint-Gobain Research North America - Brian Traynor, Sidath W., and J. Alex Lee - for putting in a good word on my behalf. Can't wait to join in on Found's impactful and innovative mission, using and developing my skills to turn trash into treasure!

Our CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Godart, had the honor of participating in a panel discussion at the prestigious Climate Beacon Conference in Boston last week! 🌍 The panel explored the critical role of innovative and scalable solutions in accelerating the energy transition, and also included Xuanhang (Simon) Zhang Zhang, CEO & Co-Founder at REON Technology; Scott Blanchet, COO at EVOLOH; and Enrique Bosch, Director of Innovation at Avangrid. A former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist, Peter shared his unique perspective on utilizing novel approaches for climate action. He highlighted the potential of aluminum as a high-density, clean fuel source, drawing inspiration from his experience with alternative energy storage mechanisms in space exploration. "That was a little nugget of the idea that turned into this approach of using aluminum as a fuel," he said. 🚀 Peter emphasized that aluminum holds 40 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, making it a promising candidate for the future of clean energy. We'd like to express our gratitude to the Climate Beacon Conference for this incredible opportunity, and especially to The Engine Accelerator's Benjamin Downing for his insightful moderation. Learn more about this conference ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eYKhfS7d #ClimateTech #CleanEnergy #AluminumPower #ClimateAction #Innovation #FoundEnergy

🎙️ ”There’s several properties of aluminum that make it this really compelling fuel. One is the really amazing energy density it has. Coming from the battery world, we’re used to talking in watt hours per kilogram. For aluminum, we’re talking kilowatt hours per kilogram. So we’re talking 8.6 kWh per kilogram in terms of the energy that’s in aluminum, and it’s even better on a volume basis - 23 kWh per liter in terms of the thermal energy that’s available. And so it’s this rare carbon-free energy carrier that’s more energy dense than the fossil fuels.” 🎙️ Just one excerpt from CSO Ariel Jackson’s appearance on Cellmates by Lumicity, where Ariel sat down with Michael Norton and Leon Groves to talk everything from his career journey to the future of clean fuels. Some highlights: 💫 Ariel’s career journey, from working on a confidential cold-fusion project funded by Google, to being the full-time primary caregiver for his daughter, to becoming a subject matter expert in aluminum-water electrochemistry at Open Water Power 💫 How Ariel’s background in electrochemistry at Stanford University led him to see the possibilities of energy storage to combat climate change 💫 The challenges he saw in implementing aluminum-water technology at Open Water Power, and why Found Energy made him believe that aluminum was a viable commercial fuel Catch the episode to hear more. https://lnkd.in/erRGB_AJ #Leadership #ClimateTech #EnergyStorage #AluminumFuel

We’re back from an inspiring NYC Climate Week. Here are a few highlights: 🌟 CEO Peter Godart, PhD, joined the Collaborative Fund + Activate Industrial Transformation panel, where we had the chance to speak alongside Karen Baert (Ammobia) and Liz Dennett, PhD (Endolith) about building transformative decarbonization technologies. Big thanks to Keely Anson for hosting. 🌟 Our demo at the Hard Tech Showcase hosted by Activate was a crowd favorite. The reactions to the energy we harness from aluminum are always a highlight. 🌟 CSO Ariel Jackson had engaging discussions with Seagrass Climate and E.ON UK on the challenges and opportunities in financing long-duration energy storage. As demand for better storage solutions grows, we’re eager to demonstrate how Found Energy can meet this need. See you next year! #ClimateTech #innovation #ClimateWeekNYC

Thanks so much to all of the founders, investors and climate enthusiasts who joined the Collaborative Fund + Activate event this morning for NYC Climate Week! During our industrial transformation discussion, Craig Shapiro, asked the panelists: "If you had a magic wand ✨ - what does your company need most to succeed in the industrial transformation sector? Karen Baert [Ammobia] - "We need great engineers who have built commercial plants before; industry veterans and scrappy scientists alike." Liz Dennett, PhD [Endolith] - "We need the right commercial partner; one with incredible geology and a healthy dash of optimism." Peter Godart [Found Energy] - "We need a partner who's willing to take a risk installing our equipment and staking their profession on this risk." Special thanks to Priyanka Bakaya who joined from ARPA-E to give opening remarks, as well as our dear friend Calvin A. Cupini who moderated with such deft and enthusiasm.

🌟 Our team had a fantastic time at CAMX 2024 a few weeks ago! Thank you for everyone who spoke to us about our clean thermal power and sustainable alumina trihydrate (ATH). 💫 We’re looking forward to seeing how our clean thermal energy technology can play a role in shaping the future of composites manufacturing. ♻️🔥 Looking forward to the next one! #CAMX2024 #Composites #CleanEnergy #Innovation #ManufacturingInnovation Jocelyn Foulke Jin Kao

Ariel Jackson and I will be running around NYCW! Excited to see some old and new faces and nerd out on all things climate. Let me know if you'll be there.