Ian Bishop on Energy Tech Startups
Ian Bishop is the CEO and co-founder of Elemental Recycling (ER). Elemental has developed a single step process to recycle all plastics and tires into hydrogen and graphite /graphene. The process is also patented for electronics and greenhouse gases and has the potential to solve single stream recycling challenges while making money for plant operators.
Ian Bishop is the CEO and co-founder of Elemental Recycling (ER). Elemental has developed a single step process to recycle all plastics and tires into hydrogen and graphite /graphene. The process is also patented for electronics and greenhouse gases and has the potential to solve single stream recycling challenges while making money for plant operators.
Ian Explores:
- How Ian and Ron made one small change with a Ph.D. chemist and developed a critical innovation for recycling - 1:15
- How a culture of tinkering started with inventing an automated Margarita Machine - 3:35
- How the Elemental Recycling process works - 6:08
- How their new process enables ER to monetize waste streams differently - 13:09
- Why this process can save the world - 18:27
- Why mass producing graphene (an output of the ER process) is a game-changing material - 21:40
- Why Houston has such a strong entrepreneurial spirit - 29:25
- Why the ION district is a hidden gem in Houston - 36:25
- What the basics are which entrepreneur needs to learn - 43:30
