{"podcast":{"title":"Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To","slug":"energy-101-we-ask-the-dumb-questions-so-you-don-t-have-to-5658842","podcast_index_feed_id":5658842,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/energy-101","website_url":"https://collide.io","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4xCA__KC_whiSHO9h71_Jc9S3yjJOMmv0dPhEucVUrg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYjY2/Yjk4MWJiZWFlYmVl/ZGIxYjkxYTdiYTdi/ZGUwMy5qcGc.jpg","author":"collide.","episode_count":76,"summary":"Welcome to Energy 101 with Julie McLelland and Jacob Stiller. Join us on our mission to help raise the world's energy IQ.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T02:21:41.481463+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energy-101-we-ask-the-dumb-questions-so-you-don-t-have-to-5658842"},"episode":{"title":"The Most Important Chemical You've Never Thought About","slug":"the-most-important-chemical-you-ve-never-thought-about","published_at":"2026-04-13T17:27:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energy-101-we-ask-the-dumb-questions-so-you-don-t-have-to-5658842/the-most-important-chemical-you-ve-never-thought-about","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energy-101-we-ask-the-dumb-questions-so-you-don-t-have-to-5658842","url":"https://energy101.collide.io/episodes/the-most-important-chemical-youve-never-thought-about","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/e3360470/fb38e58e.mp3","summary":"Chlorine is in your pipes, your microchips, your drinking water and somehow nobody talks about it. Roxanna Delima, Co-founder and CBO at Rushnu, breaks down why this overlooked chemical is critical to US manufacturing and how her team is flipping the script on a 100 year old industry by using heat instead of electricity and turning waste carbon into actual product. No government subsidy dependence, no gigaton fantasies, just hard tech with a real business model. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Intro and background on Roxanna 2:05 What is Rushnu and the chlorine industry 4:22 The product and why chlorine matters 6:36 How traditional chlor alkali works and its problems 8:01 Rushnu's thermochemical approach 9:30 How costs are cut by 60% 11:32 Pilot site at Silicon Valley Clean Water 14:06 Texas connections and TotalEnergies partnership 15:58 Carbon capture without the gigaton hype 19:26 Why VC funding models are broken for hard tech 21:09 Carbon capture as a polarizing topic 24:50 Building a profitable business from the start 27:17 Startup advantages over big industry 29:01 Inside the Chlorine Institute conference 31:08 Chlorine safety and the Ohio train derailment 32:10 Energy transition and realism 34:31 The 60 second chlorine elevator pitch 36:13 AI in the chlorine industry 36:45 What the future looks like for Rushnu https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.…","meta_description":"Chlorine is in your pipes, your microchips, your drinking water and somehow nobody talks about it. Roxanna Delima, Co-founder and CBO at Rushnu, breaks do…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2299,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/energy-101-we-ask-the-dumb-questions-so-you-don-t-have-to-5658842/episodes/the-most-important-chemical-you-ve-never-thought-about/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energy-101-we-ask-the-dumb-questions-so-you-don-t-have-to-5658842/the-most-important-chemical-you-ve-never-thought-about.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}