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Mainak Chakraborty and the long wait for waste
He began with Bengaluru’s discarded food and a belief that Indian technology could do useful work. Fourteen years after co-founding GPS Renewables, Mainak Chakraborty is building for a much larger appetite: India’s demand for clean fuel.
John McKinney Spent Decades Learning How to Make Waste Pay
Before renewable natural gas became an institutional asset class, John McKinney was learning its least glamorous lessons: permits, feedstock, financing and patience. Sevana Bioenergy is the result - a company built to make difficult infrastructure work.
Ory Zik
Ory Zik is the CEO of Qnergy, an Ogden, Utah company that builds maintenance-free Stirling-engine generators used to convert stranded methane at oil, gas, landfill and livestock sites into electricity. A physicist by training with a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute, he has spent two decades founding cleantech and scientific-instrument companies, including Heliofocus (concentrated solar), Energy Points (environmental analytics, acquired by Lux Research) and Quantomix (live-cell electron microscopy). He also helped launch Greenpeace's Israel branch and served as scientific director of Israel's National Museum of Science.