Ian Bishop on Energy Tech Startups

Energy Tech Startups

Ian Bishop is the CEO and co-founder of Elemental Recycling (ER). Elemental has developed a single step process to recycle all plastics and tires into hydrogen and graphite /graphene. The process is also patented for electronics and greenhouse gases and has the potential to solve single stream recycling challenges while making money for plant operators.

Ian Explores:

• How Ian and Ron made one small change with a Ph.D. chemist and developed a critical innovation for recycling - 1:15
• How a culture of tinkering started with inventing an automated Margarita Machine - 3:35
• How the Elemental Recycling process works - 6:08
• How their new process enables ER to monetize waste streams differently - 13:09
• Why this process can save the world - 18:27
• Why mass producing graphene (an output of the ER process) is a game-changing material - 21:40
• Why Houston has such a strong entrepreneurial spirit - 29:25
• Why the ION district is a hidden gem in Houston - 36:25
• What the basics are which entrepreneur needs to learn - 43:30