Don Weatherbee, CEO of Regenx Tech Corp in Alberta, Canada shows us how you can scale up metals recycling (or regeneration as he calls it) sustainably. We discuss his journey from studying accounting to joining the mining and resources industry and how he is now leveraging opportunities to close the loop and create the circular economy around critical metals worldwide, in particular, the opportunity of aligning chemistry, process and supply chains around catalytic converts and Platinum Group Metals.

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 Guest Intro, Snowy Canada and Units
3:25 Unraveling the broader power of accounting
7:19 Dealing with post-mine closures challenges
11:35 Regeneration vs. Recycling of Metals
13:51 From junior exploration to catalytic converters
18:46 Catalytic Converters 101
22:59 Hydrometallurgy for regenerating metals
25:17 Scaling up from lab to pilot to plant
30:51 Challenges with eWaste Recycling
34:03 Long-term trends for Platinum and Palladium
38:48 Thought experiment on the market size
40:39 Limitations of mining requires more recycling
42:25 What's in store for RegenX?
45:08 Q&A Start
45:43 What is innovation?
47:57 Key moment, book, event
50:46 Time management
53:50 Favourite childhood memory
56:06 Biggest challenge to date
59:11 Advice for young professionals
1:01:02 What would you like to be remembered for
1:02:07 Where can people find you?
1:02:58 Final Message
1:03:20 Outro

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Welcome to this Mini-Series on The Grand Challengers Podcast! The topic of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been in all our minds over the past few years and is gaining even more momentum with rapid advancements in text, audio and video. Google recently released NotebookLM, a powerful research-support AI that can generate not only summaries of sources that we feed it, but also entire podcast episodes. This Mini-Series will explore the power of NotebookLM, our live reactions to its outputs... and a deep dive into some of the topics that we have covered on the show. We feature previous guests, who are here to join in on the fun!

Episode #1 delves into "Cooling Establishment Time" - Lucas Gobatti (ep39) and I run this research paper through NotebookLM and record our reaction to the deep dive discussion it produces.

Full Reference to the Paper: Gobatti, L., Bach, P.M., Scheidegger, A. and Leitão, J.P., 2023. Using satellite imagery to investigate Blue-Green Infrastructure establishment time for urban cooling. Sustainable Cities and Society, 97, p.104768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104768

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Funky Fortune by Danny Shields (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7vRFEGMyTTfeCtc8qiUB82?si=dygdqu9IQLSFYNvVzPNu5w)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:26 Guest Intro
2:30 How this experiment works
3:49 Guest prior experience with AI
4:41 The human summary
5:55 Live Reaction
54:37 Post-Discussion
59:54 Thoughts on the future of AI
1:01:27 Final remarks

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João P. Leitão, Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag), Professor at ETH Zurich and the first guest of this podcast returns for a Part 2 to reflect on the podcast 40 episodes later, more fun topics about Portugal and major research topics that we did not cover on the first episode including urban drainage asset management, urban heat mitigation and the central role that water plays in adapting cities to climate change and an uncertain future. As a newly promoted Professor, we also look at what Joao's research plans are with his team going forward into a rapidly changing world.

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:04 Guest Intro and Reflections on the podcast
4:45 The return of salted cod (Bacalhau)
7:02 Portuguese Wine and Cork
9:23 A curious case of inheritance
13:30 Getting into the science
14:58 Updates in the world of flood models
16:42 Rainfall intensities & flood volumes
19:12 Balancing model complexity and insight
22:54 Joao's preferred term for BGI
24:29 Urban drainage asset management
29:03 Encouraging more data exchange and joint learning
31:05 Speaking a different language in disciplines
33:11 Leveraging time zones for research productivity
37:34 Beginning our journey on urban heat together
42:12 Uchimizu
49:03 Is GIS becoming more relevant?
52:21 The next stage of Joao's research
54:32 Q&A Start
54:59 If you had a magic wand?
58:29 What do you define as innovation?
1:00:51 Favourite childhood memory
1:03:58 What would you like to be remembered for?
1:04:53 Easter Egg: A not German joke
1:06:57 Final Message
1:07:57 Outro

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