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Latest Episode: Salt
Salt may be one of the most familiar substances in everyday life, but in this episode, host Joe Hanson explores how special salts can help store renewable energy and make heat supply CO2‑neutral.
BASF salt expert Dr. Nils‑Olof Born explains why their low melting point makes these nitrogen salts so special and how molten salt from BASF is setting new standards for industrial steam generation in a project in Hungary.
Silvia Trevisan, Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, explains why decarbonizing industrial heat is essential for meaningful emissions reductions and how molten salt systems can help by converting energy into heat, storing it, and releasing it when needed.
Our guest: Dr. Nils-Olof Born
Nils-Olof Born has been Global Marketing and Product Manager for inorganic salts at BASF since 2022. He studied chemistry from 2007 to 2013 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, the University of Toronto, Kanada and the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany. He then completed his doctorate at BASF from 2014 to 2017 and subsequently took over the leadership of a laboratory group in the field of inorganic materials.
Our guest: Assistant Professor Silvia Trevisan
Silvia Trevisan is an Assistant Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden, focusing on the development of cost-effective thermal energy storage. Besides her academic career, she works as an energy consultant at Europe Power Solutions. Trevisan obtained a PhD in Energy Technology from KTH in April 2022. Before that, she studied Mechanical Engineering and Energy Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy.
Our host: Joe Hanson, PhD
Joe Hanson is an internationally recognized science communicator. Before working in science media and education, he researched genetic engineering and cancer biology, obtaining a PhD in biology from the University of Texas.
He is the creator, host, and head writer of Be Smart, a YouTube science education show with more than 5 million subscribers on YouTube.
Hanson has won Webby and Telly Awards and the Kavli Science Journalism Award for his work.
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