Charm's Peter Reinhardt: "Turning plants into barbecue sauce"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and chief executive Charm Industrial, to talk about a different approach to carbon capture (3:30), overshooting our emissions (7:25), starting the company after a career in software (11:35), finding the Tesla roadster of CO2 removal (14:30), the potential (16:55), scaling up (19:40), attracting investors (22:00), and the CO2 scoreboard (24:00).

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:32.3	Yo.
0:34.1	Technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:36.7	Okay, we need to go from 6,000 tons last year to 10 billion tons by 2050.
0:42.7	That's a 60 to 70% compound growth rate for the next 28 years.
0:47.9	So we, regardless of whether you think it's economical or possible or whatever,
0:53.4	what we need to deal with that overshoot is
0:55.5	growth twice as fast as software for the next 28 years. Right. Growth of twice as fast of the
1:01.5	software is eating the top people in tech.
1:26.8	I'm your host, Danny Fortson, and this week we are talking about barbecue sauce, sort of.
1:33.9	So back in the day, when I covered energy in the UK, there was one technology that everybody
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