Fellow Hope Dealers,
🍻Hope Dose @SFCW time extended to 9pm on 4/20!
👏🏽 Since some hope dealers have donated above the suggested amount for the bar tab for Monday’s Hope Dose happy hour we’re extending the end time to 9pm!
Join us at Vesuvio on Monday, April 20th from 5-9pm during SF Climate Week!
🔥RSVP HERE while the gettin’s good!
📢 Shout out to all of the companies that will be doing lighting intros! Come out to meet and cheers the founders!
Featuring lighting intros from:
✨BOOMITRA
✨DREX
✨FLORRENT
✨GRIDIQ
✨SCALVY
Are you a climate tech company and want to join the lightning round???
✍🏽 APPLY HERE ASAP!!
We only have 4 spots left!
ALSO…
We are re-releasing a few coffee episodes as we prepare to evolve transition to Hope Dose—so stay tuned!
☕ Climate Tech Coffee: Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy
Fellow Climate Warriors, this is a replay of our Climate Tech Coffee episode with Robin Langtry of Avalanche Energy— this was the shorter, usually sober version of Climate Tech Cocktails.
🍾 This episode marked the announcement of FUSIONWERX, the first-of-it’s kind commercial-scale testing facility for advanced fusion technologies.
Avalanche Energy has since gone on to raise and addition $29m since posting this episode on Substack!
Join us as we sit down with Robin Langtry, CEO and Co-founder of Avalanche Energy, a fusion startup building micro-sized fusion reactors. We dive into how their “orbital fusion” technology works, why smaller might be better, and how this team of fusion rebels plans to electrify the future — one table-sized reactor at a time.
Grab your favorite form of caffeine, and hop on board.
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audacy and Substack👉
📝 Show Notes Below 👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
“I just didn’t want to build software anymore — I wanted to build something that could change the physics of the planet.”
— Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy
Enjoy the show!
🚀 Companies / Startups Mentioned
⚛️ Avalanche Energy
🛰️ DARPA
🚀 Anduril
⚡ Zap Energy
🔋 Helion
⚡ Oklo
🌎 People / Places / Things Mentioned
📍 Seattle
📍 Los Alamos
📍 Montana
📍 DOE (Department of Energy)
📍 Air Force
📍 Austin
🔬 Ion guns
🔋 High-voltage capacitors
🎮 Sci-fi inspired design
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
[00:00] Intro
[01:23] Meet Robin
[03:48] From Montana to Micronuclear
[07:15] Fusion in a Truck?!
[12:45] Avalanche’s Breakthrough
[17:30] Competing with Big Fusion
[22:00] National Security + Energy
[28:49] The Road Ahead
[33:58] Outro