They say everything’s bigger in Texas, including climate change. That’s why Houston is leading the energy transition. Here in H-Town, the fourth largest city in the United States, entrepreneurs from across Texas and around the world are gathering to work with titans of industry to build the technology that will reduce emissions and power a low carbon future.
Welcome to Energytech Startups with Nada Ahmed and Jason Ethier. We sit down with those change makers and wildcatters who are solving the toughest energy challenges with trillions of dollars on the line. We dig into how Houston will bring technology to market on a massive scale. Join us as we talk with the leaders of the energy capital of the world as they show us how the energy transition gets done.
One drop of PFAS can contaminate an Olympic sized swimming pool, and 90 percent of us are carrying it in our blood. Dana Vazquez, cofounder and Chief Commercial Officer at Coflux Purification, explains why the current industrial fix is basically a giant Brita filter headed for a landfill, and how her team built a material that captures forever chemicals and destroys them in one step. Plus the liability bill coming for companies that wait, and what it takes to get a first skid into the field.
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00:00 Intro
01:14 Meet Dana Vazquez
02:04 What PFAS is and why it never leaves
06:23 From consulting to co-founding
09:12 How the technology works
13:44 Scaling up and staying modular
16:47 The regulation picture
18:40 Liability is the real driver
23:30 Home filters and what actually works
26:45 Funding the build
30:46 Why this one is personal
32:25 The first field deployment
37:03 Scientists and business people
42:43 What the fall looks like
45:36 The trouble with testing
47:15 Where to find Coflux
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