Peter Godart of Found Energy on Aluminum Fuel, NASA, and Engineering Impact at Scale

Peter Godart, co-founder and CEO of Found Energy, shares how he’s engineering impact at scale, what he learned working at NASA, and why aluminum fuel can drastically decarbonize heavy shipping industries.
🎙Peter Godart of Found Energy on Aluminum Fuel, NASA, and Engineering Impact at Scale, Consensus in Conversation Season 3, Episode 1
As Peter says, “When you work for NASA and one of your daily tasks is, you know, let's figure out how to catch a one meter sphere orbiting Mars at Mach 2… These problems that we have on Earth feel not that difficult by comparison… We could totally do this.”
Join us to hear how Peter brought space-sized innovation back down to Earth.
Episode timestamps:
00:00 - 00:52 Peter Godart on solving problems for NASA in space and on the Earth
00:53 - 03:02 Conor Gaughan introduces Peter Godart of Found Energy
03:03 - 06:41 Growing up, interest in music, and engineering at MIT
06:42 - 15:10 Robotics, internships, NASA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15:11 - 22:20 The origin of Found Energy and using aluminum for energy storage
22:21 - 25:26 Use cases, decarbonizing difficult industries, and hydrogen hubs
25:27 - 31:30 Balancing roles, how engineering influences management, and lessons learned
31:31 - 37:42 Sustainability, what’s at stake, the clean energy transition, and policy
37:43 - 43:21 Humanitarian programs, motivations, and exciting new innovations
43:22 - 45:40 How to learn more about Found Energy
45:41 - 46:23 Closing credits
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