Green Giants: Titans of Clean Energy Podcast

What if geothermal energy could deliver reliable, 24/7 electricity far beyond the volcanic regions and natural hot-water reservoirs where it's traditionally been developed? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Clean Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems, to explore how next-generation geothermal technology could unlock an enormous new source of clean, dependable power. After approximately 35 years at Shell, where she led unconventional well operatio...

What would change if nuclear power became faster to build and more affordable to deploy? In Episode 126 of Green Giants: Titans of Clean Energy, host Wes Ashworth, President of Lee Group Search, sits down with Jacob Stedman, CEO of Blykalla, to explore how liquid lead, advanced materials, and small modular reactors (SMRs) could help expand access to dependable clean energy. Blykalla is developing lead-cooled nuclear reactors for data centers and industry. Jacob explains why the company chose ...

What if the biggest battery breakthrough for AI isn't about storing more energy, but delivering power faster? AI data centers aren't just consuming more electricity. They're fundamentally changing how electricity needs to be delivered. As GPU clusters create sudden, high-intensity power demands, the infrastructure supporting them faces challenges traditional energy storage wasn't necessarily designed to solve. In Episode 125 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth, Pres...

AI is creating an enormous demand for electricity. But what if the bigger challenge isn't just how much power data centers need, but how quickly that demand changes? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Clean Energy, host Wes Ashworth, President of Lee Group Search, sits down with Dr. Raj DasGupta, CEO of Electrovaya, to explore why AI infrastructure is creating an entirely different opportunity for advanced battery technology. Raj has spent nearly two decades in the lithium-ion battery...

What if one of the biggest opportunities in clean energy is not discovering a new energy source, but making the sunlight already reaching us more useful? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth, President of Lee Group Search, sits down with Hunter McDaniel, Founder and CEO of UbiQD, to explore how quantum dots are moving from advanced materials research into real-world applications in agriculture, solar, and large-scale manufacturing. Hunter’s path bega...