Industrial energy use can sometimes seem like a multi-faceted and hard to explore topic. Today’s episode aims to shed light on an intrinsic part of global industry, steam. Addison Stark, Co-Founder and CEO of AtmosZero, joined us to take a journey around “the world’s most important working fluid,” as Addison calls it, and explore how AtmosZero aims to support adoption of electricity to displace unabated fossil fuel use for producing industrial steam.
Addison helped set the stage for our conversation by sharing a bit about steam’s role in global industry and the challenges around moving away from coal and natural gas to adopt electric solutions, both in the past and today. Our conversation then turned to Addison’s background and AtmosZero’s approach and history as we learned about why heat pumps might play a role in industrial steam. We also discussed AtmosZero’s first project, a collaboration with New Belgium Brewing in Colorado, as well as the motivations and makeup of those involved. We closed our discussion focused on gaining a better understanding of the economics around this sort of technology adoption as well as where the conversation around industrial heat and steam may be going next.
We learned a lot about industrial steam chatting with Addison this week and hope you enjoy our dive into this often times ignored pillar of our economy.