Martin is the CEO of the Faraday Institution, the UK's independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, and commercialisation. He was the director of the Birmingham Energy institute for 10 years, Head of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham for 4 years and has been a nuclear physicist for over 30 years. Also the Rutherford Prize and Medal winner in 2010.

Episode Contents:

• Short and long-term electrochemical storage.

• Commercialisation and Gigafactories in the UK.
• How well is the UK performing?
• The future of the national grid.
• Battery recycling.

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For 4 decades Chris has presented some of the BBCs most watched nature and wildlife programmes. He is the current Vice President of the RSPB, former President of the RSPCA, and an avid naturalist and wildlife photographer.

Some of the shows he has presented include, Springwatch, Earth, Inside Out, Blue Planet Live and The Really Wild Show. Openly neurodiverse, he has recently presented touching documentaries on neurodiverse conditions, which, as someone with ADHD myself, I thank him for.

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50 years after graduating from the Chemical Engineering department at Imperial College London, David Simmonds sits down with a current student of that same department.

David is a seasoned energy systems expert with a particular eye for how the engineering discipline can create the solutions we need for our Net Zero transition.

I would highly recommend his 8 part series on "Engineering Net Zero", published in "The Chemical Engineer". Linked below.

Episode Contents:

- How to successfully deliver engineering projects?

- Shell in the 1990's!

- Energy systems and Engineering Net Zero.

- Heat pumps, Hydrogen and EV's.

- Putting Climate Change on top of the political agenda?

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