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Bypassing Fossil Fuels to Produce “Green” Hydrogen

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Bypassing Fossil Fuels to Produce “Green” Hydrogen

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The EU recently set targets to increase its use of hydrogen as part of its energy mix from current levels of 2% to 14% by 2050. As governments around the world are also looking to leverage more hydrogen, calls to decarbonize its production have increased. Currently, most hydrogen is produced through an emissions intensive process known as steam methane reforming (SMR) which involves using fossil fuels as a feedstock. Chris Finke, Ph.D with Brimstone Energy and Peter Reinhardt with Charm Industrial present two novel methods to produce “green” hydrogen that leverage renewable feedstocks and results in zero emissions.

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Our Schedule
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Networking & food (BYO)
6:15 PM - 6:25 PM - Intro and announcements
6:25 PM - 7:45 PM - Presentations and Q&A
7:45 PM - 8:00 PM - Further refreshments and networking

Our speakers

Cody Finke, Ph.D
Cody Finke received his BA in Chemistry from Carleton College (‘12) where he was honored as a Goldwater Scholar. Cody went on to receive his PhD in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech (‘20) where he worked under Professor Michael Hoffmann in the lab that won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. In his PhD Cody used both a techno-economic analysis and fundamental chemistry to develop technology to improve industrial chemical processes with global environmental implications including toilet wastewater treatment and industrial hydrogen, cement, and chlorine production. After his PhD Cody went on to Join Cyclotron Road’s 5th cohort as the co-founder and CEO of Brimstone Energy. Outside of work Cody enjoys spending time in the mountains.

Peter Reinhardt
Peter Reinhardt is a co-founder at Charm Industrial, an early-stage R&D effort to develop negative emissions and renewable hydrogen pathways, and CEO/Co-founder at Segment, a 500-person software company. He previously studied aerospace engineering at MIT.

Our companies

Brimstone Energy (https://www.brimstoneenergy.com/)
The production of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is responsible for 5% of GHG emissions (the same as cars). Cement is especially difficult to decarbonize because ~60% of its emissions are a direct result of the chemistry of production and will not be eliminated even if clean energy is used. Brimstone Energy is an ARPA-E funded Cyclotron Road company and is able to make low-cost OPC without the chemistry emissions. By making OPC, Brimstone will bypass the regulatory hurdles other clean cement companies will face when entering the market.

Charm Industrial (https://charmindustrial.com/)
Charm Industrial is working to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm. We convert waste biomass into fast pyrolysis bio-oil. Then we inject bio-oil deep underground as negative emissions, or reform it to produce green hydrogen as a fuel and industrial chemical for the production of refined hydrocarbons, ammonia and steel.

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