Energy Tech Startups

Ethan Novek is a multiple award-winning chemist and is the sole inventor of 25 granted utility patents with over 150 patent filings in the materials science and sustainable energy industries. He has invented 9 new platform technologies in heat transfer, electricity storage, gas separation, refrigeration cycles, calcium oxide & cement production, tidal power, power generation, and CO2 conversion. He is the inventor, founder, and CEO of SolvCor Technologies.

Show Notes

Ethan Novek is a multiple award-winning chemist and is the sole inventor of 25 granted utility patents with over 150 patent filings in the materials science and sustainable energy industries. He has invented 9 new platform technologies in heat transfer, electricity storage, gas separation, refrigeration cycles, calcium oxide & cement production, tidal power, power generation, and CO2 conversion. He is the inventor, founder, and CEO of SolvCor Technologies.

Ethan delves into:
  • How industrial cooling systems work today - 2:00
  • What viscosity is and why keeping it low matters in cooling systems - 6:35
  • How Ethan developed technology based on physical sciences technology and decided to launch SolvCor - 11:50
  • How Ethan went about finding first adopts for his novel and disruptive technology - 18:00
  • How improving cooling systems can significantly reduce carbon footprint - 23:40
  • How entrepreneurs and inventors have to develop a critical attitude to maintain focus - 29:05
  • Why Houston is a strategic location to grow a startup - 36:00
  • Where the cooling industry has opportunities to create efficiency by 2050 - 41:45
  • Why investing and achieving our climate goals and bringing energy innovation to market is not a tradeoff, and how technology will enable us - 50:00
Get in Touch:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-novek/
https://innovatorenergy.com/

What is Energy Tech Startups?

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.

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.

Hosts: Nada Ahmed and Jason Ethier