The time has come.

🍀DJ Matt Who?! returns to Boston at ClimaTech2026’s official reception and after party. RSVP for ClimaTech After Dark HERE!

🎤Matt will also be moderating a critical minerals panel at ClimaTech at 1pm on 5/5.

🔥Being the DJ and all, we’ve got limited discount comp codes for ClimaTech. Hit us up if you’re interested.

☕️Afterwards, we’ll schmoozing with founders and investors on 5/6 at The Engine’s Climate Networking Breakfast. Will there be Dunkin? One can hope.

🤖And speaking of ClimaTech—Dr. Peter Godart, CEO of Found Industries—will be a panelist on the critical minerals panel, so we decided to re-release the Climate Tech Coffee episode Peter recorded with us. Enjoy learning about cannibal space robots.

Peter Godart, Co-founder and CEO at Found Industries, joins Matt for a coffee and an eye-opening glimpse into the future of sustainable energy. Converting scrap aluminum into a powerful fuel, Peter and his team are turning heads in the energy sector with innovative solutions that are both groundbreaking and green. In this episode, Peter and Matt explore Found Industries’ journey, their clever tech innovations, and how they’re setting new standards in the climate tech arena.

We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a cup of caffeine in hand.

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📝 Show Notes Below👇

🎧New podcast episode:

“My new life mission is to make it so we never have to go to Mars.”

Peter Godart, Founder and CEO at Found Industries

Enjoy the show!

📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audacy and Substack👉

Interested in sponsoring?

Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com

Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

💡Activate

💡Autodesk Foundation

💡Bessemer Venture Partners

🔋Found Energy

🔋Mass CEC

💡Munich Re

🛰️NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

🛰️SpaceX

People/places/things mentioned during the show:

🪨Aluminum

🪨Aluminum Exfoliation

🏫Berkeley College of Music

📍Boston

⚡Brayton Cycle

⚛ Carbon Dioxide

🌡️Carnot Efficiency

🏭Coal Power Plants

🏛 US Congress

🚀Curiosity Rover

🧑‍💻Doug Hart

💡Einstein Thought Experiment

🪐Enceladus

🪐Europa

⚛Hydrocarbons

⚛Hydrogen

📍Japan

🏫Juilliard

🪐Jupiter

📍Korea

🪐Mars

🏫Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

💫Microgravity

📰National Geographic

☕Nespresso Coffee Capsules

🏫 New England Conservatory

⚛ Oxide Layer

🚀Perseverance Rover

🧑‍💻Peter Godart

☕Philz Coffee

🧑‍💻Ryan Macpherson

🪐Saturn

🔬Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

🤖Self-Cannibalizing Robot Lab

📍Southeast Asia

🥫SPAM

🌡️Thermodynamics

TIMESTAMPS

[0:00:00] Introduction

[0:00:49] A musical background

[0:03:01] Coffee talk

[0:04:12] Professional background

[0:06:16] NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

[0:08:31] Robotics on Mars

[0:11:29] Europa project

[0:17:00] Aluminum as an energy source

[0:20:34] From space exploration to climate solutions

[0:22:18] The Birth of Found Energy

[0:24:41] Aluminum as a fuel source

[0:28:02] Aluminum exfoliation

[0:31:04] Potential applications

[0:35:35] Expansion

[0:37:44] Development stage

[0:39:06] Call for collaboration

[0:40:30] Investor support and global strategy

[0:41:21] Outro

Feeling down?

🚀Climate Tech Cocktails is back as Hope Dose!

⏮️ We’re rewinding the VHS to our renegade days.

What does that mean?

We’re going to fill a fun, random, awesome bar with badass people.

👯‍♀️ So swing on by for a dose of hope at Vesuvio on 4/20 from 5-8pm!

👉🏽RSVP HERE👈🏽 while you can!

Vesuvio is one of our favorite bars in the world because of its bohemian history and people watching from the balcony.

In true bohemian fashion, this event is community powered. No large corporate sponsors.

🙌 ALL TICKET DONATION PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARDS THE BAR TAB!

MUST RSVP FOR TAB ACCESS!

Featuring lighting intros from:

✨DIMENSIONAL ENERGY

✨DISPATCH GOODS

✨IT’S ELECTRIC

✨SCALVY

✨SWAY

Are you a climate tech company and want to join the lightning round???

✍🏽 APPLY HERE ASAP!!

We only have 5 spots left!

When you think times look bleak, always remember we’re...

🇧🇷 Brazil is stepping up and providing the first dose of hope next Thursday, March 26th during South Summit in Porto Alegre at Fuga Bar!

📣 Huge shoutout to Climatechs for organizing!

Going and/or know people who are?

👉🏽 RSVP HERE while supplies last!

📞 Want to host one in your city and dose people with hope? Hit us up and we’ll promote the heck outta it!

👩🏽‍🚀 More announcements to come…buckle up…

🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, estamos chegando.

​O Hope Dose retorna ao Brasil para sua segunda edição, desta vez, durante o South Summit.

​A crise climática é um desafio global. E as soluções também precisam ser.
Por isso, criamos espaços que estimulam colaboração real entre quem está construindo, financiando e escalando soluções climáticas.

​Em parceria com o Fórum Brasileiro das Climatechs, reuniremos founders, investidores e stakeholders do ecossistema de tecnologia e investimento de impacto que estarão no South Summit, especialmente aqueles conectados ao debate do painel do South Summit “Balancing Impact and Profit in Climate Investing”.

​Será um encontro para continuar a conversa além do evento.

​Sem formalidades.
Sem pitch obrigatório.
Sem painel.

​Apenas conexões de qualidade, boas conversas e um ambiente pensado para aproximar quem está moldando o futuro do investimento climático.
O que te espera?

​✅ founders
✅ investidores
✅ impacto + lucro na mesma frase
🚫 palestras longas
🚫 networking forçado
✅ welcome drink
✅ gente que faz acontecer

​👥 Capacidade estimada: 80–100 pessoas
🍺 Cada convidado recebe um welcome chopp
💬 Networking livre

​Contribuição sugerida

​Para ajudar a cobrir os custos de produção do evento e viabilizar novos encontros da comunidade, sugerimos que os participantes façam uma pequena contribuição voluntária:

​R$ 100 – (generoso) Você apoia a realização do encontro e ajuda a viabilizar a participação de mais pessoas.
R$ 75 – (recomendado) Você contribui para cobrir os custos de um convidado.
R$ 50 – (parcial) Para quem não puder contribuir com os valores acima, ajuda a cobrir parcialmente seus custos de participação.

​A contribuição não é obrigatória, mas é muito bem-vinda para tornar o encontro possível.

​Obs.: o evento não é open bar. Após o welcome chopp, bebidas e consumos adicionais poderão ser adquiridos diretamente no bar.

​🟢 Se você constrói, investe ou apoia soluções climáticas, seja parte da conversa.

I know, it’s been a minute.

I’m writing you all today to announce Climate Tech Cocktails is officially transitioning to Hope Dose.

Questions I imagine are on your mind:

• Will there still be events? Yep. Announcements coming soon.

• What about the podcast? Yes. I enjoy capturing (literally and figuratively) founders & CEOs more than anything. First episode is in the can and more scheduled.

• Any new content? Another yes. A newsletter is in the works.

• Investments? 🤫 slowly, but surely.

• Is he being weak and avoiding the word climate like others?

  No. Climate’s still the core, along with badass people working on other meaningful problems. I’ve grown a lot over the past year+, and as I continue to evolve, I want to be able to color outside of the lines.

I downshifted CTC over the past year+ for personal reasons. I burnt out, I decided to invest as much time, energy, and resources as I could into my mental and physical health. It’s been a journey.

I quickly realized I couldn’t evolve into the person I wanted to be while pumping out content. I wouldn’t press play again until I was ready. So here we are. I’m ready. Are you?

I’d like to dedicate this announcement to my father, who turns 70 today. What can you give someone who has everything? Hope.

So why Hope Dose?

It’s been a term circling my mind for 18 months, and it just won’t die. Over the years, I’ve realized ideas I try my mightiest to kill that refuse to perish are keepers.

The world seems pretty f*d right now. I understand. It’s easy to think that way. In fact, our brains are wired to crave shocking and negative content. Hence, why most forms of media capture and maintain our attention by constantly serving us a deluge of negative information.

War. Rape. Murder. Theft. Lies.

We crave the drama.

I’m a contrarian and believe the world isn’t all that bad.

Who knew being positive would be so edgy? I guess you can say I’m punk positive.

I also believe positivity yields productivity. The powers that be want us to accept their toxic version of reality and give up, so let’s be positively productive.

Ultimately, with Hope Dose, I hope you, the audience, can walk away with a spoon full of hope after consuming our content and realize that maybe, just maybe, we’re not quite f*d, after all.

Welcome to Hope Dose, the next episode.

Warmly,

Matt