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We are thrilled to announce that Found Energy and TelWel East Japan Corporation have officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore commercialization opportunities for our innovative aluminum-fueled power systems in Japan. Signed by Peter Godart, CEO of Found Energy; Tatsu Ishikawa, President of TelWel East Japan Corporation; and Kino Kinoshita, Co-Founder of GiTV, this partnership is a major milestone on Found Energy’s path towards commercialization, opening the door to Japan - pioneers in energy independence. This multi-phase collaboration with TelWel East Japan Corporation will focus on scaling and commercializing Found Energy’s systems for the Japanese market, further advancing the country’s transition to clean energy. We were honored to also be joined by Segun Idowu, the Chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion for the City of Boston, who gave an inspiring keynote invoking Boston’s history of partnership with Japan and as a town of revolutionaries, as well as Alia Hamada Forrest, Director of Business Strategy at the City of Boston; Elijah Miller, Director of Policy at Boston's Office of Economic Opportunity & Inclusion; Shanice Wallace, MPP, Business Strategy Manager at the City of Boston; and Steven Lee, CFA, Green New Deal Finance Advisor at the City of Boston. We are proud to be based in Boston and grateful for your support! Learn more about the agreement: https://lnkd.in/eb5xK9dr City of Boston | Economic Opportunity and Inclusion Cabinet #cleanenergy #hydrogen #aluminum #innovation #partnership

Found Energy is looking for a Senior I&C Engineer to join our team and help design the control systems powering our aluminum-based energy technology. If you have strong electrical design experience and are skilled in PLC programming, we'd love to hear from you! Come work on cutting-edge renewable energy systems in a fast-paced, hands-on environment. Apply now or reach out directly! 🔗 #Hiring #Instrumentation #ControlsEngineering #PLC #ElectricalDesign #Automation #RenewableEnergy

I'm still thinking about the REVEAL-STORAGE Renewable Metal Fuels conference at OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, which brought together the world experts in metal fuels. Some highlights: ⚡ Power-to-X is usually thought of as only Power-to-liquids or Power-to-gas, but metals should not be left out of the Power-to-X ecosystem. 🔥There are so many approaches to extracting energy out of metals -- from forming stable flames via direct combustion with air, to reactions with steam, supercritical water, or liquid water. It's an extremely exciting space for both academics and industry. 🏭 CO2-free aluminum production is making huge strides. In Iceland, by using geothermal electricity combined with inert anodes, IceTec (Tæknisetur) and Arctus Aluminum can completely eliminate CO2 from the smelting process, enabling the most efficient form of carbon-free energy transportation. Furthermore, the new electrode and cell designs can dramatically increase the energy efficiency, which is good for emissions and the bottom-line. p.s. Thank you Rapperswil for such amazing hospitality!

⚡ Welcome to the new home page of the Energy Seminar at Harvard! The Energy Seminar is a weekly series of conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy, hosted at Harvard University. Follow us to stay in the loop! 💡 We have an all-star lineup of guest speakers! This semester, we’re welcoming executives from leading edge start-ups including Boston Metal, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Feon Energy, Found Energy, Lithios, Nth Cycle, Phoenix Tailings, and Sublime Systems and visionary investors from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures, and Lowercarbon Capital. 📍 Interested? RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eYNK7mdJ. The next seminar is on Monday 3/3 with Ted Dillon, COO of Clean Energy Ventures. We’ll be back in your feed this week to share highlights from our first two seminars! The Energy Seminar is a program of the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group and is sponsored by the The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.

⚡ Welcome to the new home page of the Energy Seminar at Harvard! The Energy Seminar is a weekly series of conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy, hosted at Harvard University. Follow us to stay in the loop! 💡 We have an all-star lineup of guest speakers! This semester, we’re welcoming executives from leading edge start-ups including Boston Metal, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Feon Energy, Found Energy, Lithios, Nth Cycle, Phoenix Tailings, and Sublime Systems and visionary investors from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures, and Lowercarbon Capital. 📍 Interested? RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eYNK7mdJ. The next seminar is on Monday 3/3 with Ted Dillon, COO of Clean Energy Ventures. We’ll be back in your feed this week to share highlights from our first two seminars! The Energy Seminar is a program of the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group and is sponsored by the The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.

While Found Energy CEO Peter Godart loved his first job building spacecraft for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he couldn’t shake a nagging question—what was it all for? This mini-existential crisis led him to turn his focus back to Earth, determined to tackle one of humanity’s greatest challenges. ⚡🌱

Join us in congratulating Marta Dueñas Díez, who has just been promoted from Senior Principal Process Engineer to Found Energy's Director of Materials Engineering! With a PhD in Engineering Cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), a licentiate (BSc + MSc) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Valladolid and over 25 years in energy technology development, Marta has built a career at the intersection of innovation and industrial application. She has led R&D efforts at Norsk Hydro, Equinor, and Repsol, pioneering advancements in offshore production optimization and chemical computing. Marta came to Boston for a research collaboration between Harvard University and Repsol, where her work led to multiple patents and industrial applications. Now at Found Energy, she focuses on process optimization and system-wide modeling to advance our technology. We spoke with Marta to learn more about her work. Here are some highlights: 🍃 What brought you to Found Energy? What drew me to Found is the amazing technology capable of turning aluminum scrap/waste into energy (in the form of steam and hydrogen) and a valuable aluminum co-byproduct. I love contributing to cleantech, and I am amazed at how clean this process is - where the raw material is waste that is turned into valuable energy and products. 🍃 What do you do at Found Energy? I oversee the design and optimization of Found Energy's fuel manufacturing process as well as the chemical reaction side of Found's novel technology. Any career highlights? At Repsol’s R&D Centre I supported the development and installation of novel hardware. Two novel projects I worked on were 1) the first subsea metering and pumping installed by Repsol in deepwater, and 2) the first automated leak detection system in an offshore platform. 🍃 Tell us a fun fact. I love nature, so my favorite season in Boston is Autumn, when I do a lot of hiking and outdoor activities. I also love traveling. Fun fact - I speak fluent Norwegian, and I dance salsa. Read Marta's full profile: https://lnkd.in/gs3zZEMf

See you in Paris in a couple weeks!! 🇫🇷

Ken Zolot recently invited me to speak on a panel for Joe Hadzima's legendary Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures course at MIT. It was a pleasure to share the stage with Alli Davanzo from Encora Therapeutics and Louis DeRidder from the Langer and Traverso Lab, diving into what it takes to build a stellar founding team and navigate the early years of a startup. One thing I enjoyed sharing was how my longtime side hustle as a jazz pianist unexpectedly prepared me for the fast-paced world of pitching and communicating about Found Energy on the fly. Turns out, jazz and startups have more in common than you’d think! Huge thanks to Ken and the Nuts and Bolts team for the opportunity—it was an incredible discussion! #entrepreneurship #startups #MIT #leadership #foundingteams #jazz

Final reflections from the International Symposium on Renewable Metal Fuels, sponsored by REVEAL-STORAGE: 1. As highlighted by Jeff Bergthorson: Humanity has been burning carbon-based fuels to make electricity for more than a century. Now, with the price of renewable electricity falling, we can envision flipping that dynamic and using clean electricity to make fuel. What a historic and exciting time for us to be living through this paradigm shift and inventing new ways to store energy! 2. The burgeoning community that gathered in Rapperswil to discuss renewable metal fuels is strong and growing - already 100+ strong attendees at the symposium, including students, research teams, startups, and all kinds of collaborations. 3. Within the community, there is strong alignment on the vision. We are collectively working toward the closed-loop cycle of metal fuel charged by renewable energy and discharched to power our various societal needs - long-duration storage, backup power, etc., you name it. While the vision is strong and shared, there are many groups working on different methods. This leaves me quite hopeful; when you see this many smart people working on diverse strategies to achieve a common goal, you know there is a high likelihood for success! While there are many promising methods, there won't be a silver bullet and there WILL be a need for many effective solutions, so there’s lots of work for us all to do. Finally, there are a lot of really lovely and talented people working in this field, and it was great to be welcomed and connect with so many these past few days in beautiful Rapperswil, Switzerland. Particular thanks to Mihaela Dudita for facilitating this stimulating symposium! #metalfuel #cleanenergy #innovation