Recycling Brilliance with Dr Megan O'Connor
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Robert is joined this week by Dr Megan O'Connor, co-founder and CEO of Nth Cycle, a metal processing company that has developed technology to enable a clean, domestic, and streamlined supply of critical minerals for the clean energy transition.
Dr. O'Connor leverages years of experience working on sustainable technology in many of America's top research labs, where she helped develop the electro-extraction processes she and her team are commercializing at Nth Cycle. Prior to founding Nth Cycle, Dr. O'Connor was an Entrepreneurial Fellow in the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was a visiting researcher at Yale University's Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering.
Dr. O'Connor received her PhD in environmental engineering from Duke University and was recognized by Forbes on its "30 under 30" energy list in 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | One of the things that we talk about a great deal on this show is the concept of the |
| 0:18.4 | circular economy, the notion that we must learn to reuse the materials we extract from |
| 0:24.4 | the planet and reuse them again and again. And there's some new technologies in this area |
| 0:30.6 | that are really, really exciting. And that's what we're talking about today. I'm joined |
| 0:35.8 | on the podcast today by Dr. Megan O'Connor, who is an American, the co-founder and CEO |
| 0:44.6 | of Inth Cycle. Google it because you'll be blown away. There are metal processing |
| 0:51.4 | company and they've developed a technology that can enable clean, domestic and streamed |
| 0:57.1 | line supply of critical materials for the clean energy transition. Now that is the wording |
| 1:04.1 | from their website. But when you hear what Megan has to say, it is amazing. And it's just |
| 1:09.2 | it can, I can get my brains around it. I was locked in the old economy, the old system |
| 1:15.1 | of centralized recycling. I spent a lot of time on scrap yards in my life. I know what |
| 1:21.6 | they're like and I know how much material we just throw away and how we could use that |
| 1:26.5 | material again and the enormous savings we can have on what we have to ship around the |
| 1:31.2 | planet. So this is a really exciting episode. Really hope you enjoy it. It's a little bit |
| 1:36.4 | shorter than usual simply because we had a bit of a technology issue, technology issue |
| 1:40.4 | in the middle, not my fault, not Megan's fault, just life, just doing a podcast between |
| 1:45.8 | Brisbane and Boston in the United States. A little bit difficult to do, but we managed |
| 1:50.8 | it. She was fantastic. She coped with technical difficulties like a true professional, really |
| 1:57.4 | impressive, amazing woman, really worth listening to. Really hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 2:01.8 | So please welcome to the fully charged podcast, Dr. Megan O'Connor. |
| 2:10.4 | Megan, this is a real privilege for me because what you're doing, what I always wanted to |
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