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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James is the President of The Heartland Institute, one of the most significant right-leaning conservative free market think tanks in the US. James has a degree in government, studied Atmospheric Science at Dartmouth College, and has featured on most major news outlets in the US, talking about the topics covered in this conversation.

I and James disagree on a lot of things discussed, but my thanks go out to James for accepting this conversation and remaining professional.

As requested, I have linked below, a supporting document for this episode, with references to information that I based certain comments on. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XD1xZE7GcO-SwIBTfQQ_qFR4IGM7jzTNdJvqF1RHVIA/edit?usp=sharing

Episode Contents:

- Meeting with Nigel Farage, and attractiveness of polarising figures.

- Climate science skepticism.

- Are we actually in a climate crisis?

- Is the Trump-Musk collaboration dangerous?

- Founding of Heartland UK/Europe.

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Beata is an English teacher to foreign learners, the author of "The Sickle and The Crown" and "Beyond English", and is an emigrant of communist Czechoslovakia, raised by a family tightly engrained in the communist regime.

Episode Contents:

• Growing up under a communist regime.
• Why does Michael Heseltine have a statue of Lenin in his garden?
• Would integration into the UK have been harder if she was a person of colour?
• The English language and British culture through the eyes of non-English speakers.
• What is the difference between religion and spirituality?

Frank was the Green Party MP candidate for North East Derbyshire in the recent general election, he was previously the campaign manager for the Green Party after leaving the Labour Party 2018, and has been a Green Party district councillor since May 2023.

Episode Contents:

• What does it mean to be a councillor?
• Difference between Greens and Lib Dems
• UK climate commitments for the next parliament
• Why do the Greens still oppose nuclear energy?
• Is abolishing OFSTED really a good idea?

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Gerald is the author of "Climate Denial in American Politics" and "The Failures of the Kyoto Protocol". He is a commentator on the news media and social media about the politics of climate change, has a PhD in Chemistry, and is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

*An error was made when Gerald said in his book that there are 200 million climate deniers in America, I challenged this. He told me after recording that he meant to say 100 million.

Episode Contents:

• The failures of the Kyoto Protocol
• Climate change in American Politics
• How can we tackle climate denial?
• Why do people deny the science?
• Energy Industrial Complex

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Cameron is the co-founder and CTO of Inverto Earth, focusing on nature based solutions to restore 1% of earths coastlines by 2030. He was an R&D engineer and the first official employee of Wingcopter, working on drones and payload delivery systems for medicine and other niche applications, then worked at WeRobotics, again with drones, working to "democratise robotics"

Episode Contents:

• Immigration from Queensland to Europe.
• Mosquitos, leeches and bacteria.
• Drone delivery, engineering and democratising robotics.
• Inverto Earth.
• Mangroves and restoration of earths coastlines.

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