#3: Richard Adamson - Industrial Cleantech Sherpa

<p>Richard has facilitated the commercialization of innovative technologies in Canada and the United States for three decades. He is currently the CEO of Industrial Climate Solutions, a company developing and commercializing industrial breakthrough process equipment and technologies to address greenhouse gas emissions. Their technology, the Pulse-Enhanced (Regenerative) Froth Contactor, is a step-change in gas/liquid and gas/liquid/solid processes. The RFC eliminates fouling, that pesky 'diffusion limit', and enables highly efficient mass-transfer.&nbsp;</p> <p>In the episode, we discuss his thoughts on the Elon Musk $100 Million carbon capture prize, which has <a href="https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk">since been announced</a>. The interview was spurred by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6759520235168112640/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A6759520235168112640%2C6764594392981499904)">Richard's recent LinkedIn post on the subject</a>. While the prize is more focused on what Richard terms "Blue Ocean Technologies", we still have an interesting conversation around innovation challenges and ready-to-deploy carbon capture technologies. We discuss his experience at the <a href="//">CMC research institute</a>, the quirky origin story of the underlying technology for <a href="https://www.icsolutions.work/">Industrial Climate Solutions</a> and how it then ended up with an <a href="https://www.onr.navy.mil/">Office of Navy Research</a> contract with <a href="https://www.sandia.gov/">Sandia National Laboratories</a> for filtering anthrax in extreme desert conditions, to where it is today. We discuss his advice to grad students and PhDs looking to understand industry pain points, and more more.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>More about Richard</strong><br> He is the past Managing Director/President of Carbon Management Canada/CMC Research Institutes, and was the Sr. Project Lead w. Southern Research Institute (NC), led the establishment of the Carbon-to-Liquids Development Centre, hostin