Source Water's Cody Friesen: "Turning sunlight into water"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cody Friesen, founder of Source Water, to talk about using solar to solve the water problem (4:30), the messy energy transition (9:15), our reliance on “dino-juice” (11:00), how its panels work (13:00), improving performance (22:00), starting the company (24:55), luring investors (27:00), going from scientist to founder (30:50), creating a battery company (38:00), scaling up (40:00), and solving problems for seven generations hence (44:45).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.5	I'm spending all this time in Indonesia and other places where there's 10 feet of rainfall a year and nothing to drink.
0:10.1	I'm living in the Sonoran Desert where water stress is driven by water scarcity.
0:14.9	There are fundamentally different problems.
0:17.2	And yet there's commonality.
0:19.3	And so it was like, oh, wait a minute.
0:21.4	Okay, no, really, water is humanity's greatest problem.
0:25.8	Could we apply renewables principles to this problem?
0:29.2	And that sort of was the aha, if there was one.
0:52.2	Yeah. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:57.8	How are you doing? This week, I'm not going to lie,
1:02.3	we have a fabulous show. I don't know, say that all the time, but that's because I believe it.
1:08.0	But also, this one I think is really, really, really interesting, and it's all about water,
1:11.2	H2O. So I'm not sure if you're aware Climate change
1:12.1	Bad
1:13.0	You know
1:14.0	The effects of it
1:15.3	Are becoming more and more real
1:16.4	As we have discussed many times
1:17.9	On this pod before
1:18.7	For example
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