Richard has facilitated the commercialization of innovative technologies in Canada and the United States for three decades. He is currently the CEO of Industrial Climate Solutions, a company developing and commercializing industrial breakthrough process equipment and technologies to address greenhouse gas emissions. Their technology, the Pulse-Enhanced (Regenerative) Froth Contactor, is a step-change in gas/liquid and gas/liquid/solid processes. The RFC eliminates fouling, that pesky 'diffusion limit', and enables highly efficient mass-transfer. 

In the episode, we discuss his thoughts on the Elon Musk $100 Million carbon capture prize, which has since been announced. The interview was spurred by Richard's recent LinkedIn post on the subject. While the prize is more focused on what Richard terms "Blue Ocean Technologies", we still have an interesting conversation around innovation challenges and ready-to-deploy carbon capture technologies. We discuss his experience at the CMC research institute, the quirky origin story of the underlying technology for Industrial Climate Solutions and how it then ended up with an Office of Navy Research contract with Sandia National Laboratories for filtering anthrax in extreme desert conditions, to where it is today. We discuss his advice to grad students and PhDs looking to understand industry pain points, and more more. 

More about Richard
He is the past Managing Director/President of Carbon Management Canada/CMC Research Institutes, and was the Sr. Project Lead w. Southern Research Institute (NC), led the establishment of the Carbon-to-Liquids Development Centre, hosting pilot test programs for biomass-to-liquid-fuels conversion technologies. Prior to that he co-founded Mariah Energy, a distributed micro-utility, developing self-dispatching microturbine Combined Heat and Power network. 

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