The Innovating for Earth podcast series returns to discuss the green iron opportunity. Steel is the backbone of modern society, yet conventional steelmaking is one of the world's largest sources of industrial emissions. Green iron therefore offers a large opportunity to contribute to both global decarbonisation and development. If Australia can take advantage of its iron ore and renewable energy resources to export green iron in place of iron ore, i t is estimated that it could: Add 3x the value...
Jul 14, 2025•51 min•Ep. 10
In this Innovating for the Earth podcast, Heirloom CEO Shashank Samala and Leilac CEO Daniel Rennie explain how their partnership aims to accelerate the removal of legacy carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the Earth’s atmosphere and provide a pathway for the electrification of hard-to-abate industries, including cement, lime, iron, and steel.
Dec 06, 2023•32 min•Ep. 9
The unsung heroes of this world, in James' opinion, are engineers. Sure, people talk about Einstein and Marco Polo and Shakespeare and Steve Jobs and Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela and Rihanna. And yes, good on them. Amazing stuff. But the fact is that none of these high achievers would have been able to do much at all without engineers. Every time you drive on a road or a bridge or through a tunnel or get on a bus or a train over a tall building, or open your laptop or tap on your phone y...
Jul 11, 2022•36 min•Ep. 8
Governments are spending big on electrical infrastructure upgrades and flagging that the future of industry is going to be powered exclusively with electricity with grid scale storage and export with batteries and hydrogen. Many mineral or chemical processes haven’t had the opportunity to make use of low cost, renewable electricity because availability of proven, large scale, electric fired thermal processing hasn’t been available until now. The next 10 years is going to see significant shifts i...
Feb 09, 2022•35 min•Ep. 7
Together, they explore how Calix’s LEILAC (Low Emissions Intensity Lime and Cement) carbon capture technology can help significantly reduce lime’s impact on the environment. A TECHNOLOGY THAT IS AVAILABLE NOW As environmental regulations toughen, and shareholders and stakeholders place increasing pressure on companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lime producers need solutions quickly to help mitigate their CO2 emissions. Calix’s LEILAC (“Low Emissions Intensity Lime and Cement”) Technolog...
Jan 04, 2022•33 min•Ep. 6
SaltX Technology is a Swedish renewable tech company that has set out to solve the problems of renewable energy supply, demand and timing. SaltX’s grid-scale energy storage solution uses abundant, recyclable and energy dense nanocoated limestone-based materials. The thermochemical storage is charged with renewable energy and can be dispatched when needed, as steam or electricity. Many industries are trying to decarbonise traditional heating processes. Efficient, low-cost energy storage systems a...
Oct 27, 2021•35 min•Ep. 5
In the fourth Episode of INNOVATING FOR THE EARTH, innovation expert and radio and TV presenter James O’Loghlin talks with Simon Thomsen, Project Engineer at Calix and responsible for the R&D on the LEILAC 2 project about how LEILAC Carbon Capture technology is applied to the cement industry. The LEILAC technology is based on Calix’s Direct Separation technology, which aims to enable the efficient capture of the unavoidable process carbon emissions, derived from its original application in t...
Sep 28, 2021•31 min•Ep. 4
In the third Episode of INNOVATING FOR THE EARTH, innovation expert and radio and TV presenter James O’Loghlin talks with Daniel Rennie, the General Manager of Cement Decarbonisation at Calix about how Calix Carbon Capture technology is helping reduce carbon dioxide emissions. To respond to the threat of climate change, and reach the EU’s target of reducing carbon emissions by 60% by 2030, and becoming carbon neutral by 2050, carbon capture technologies will need to be applied to most European c...
Aug 18, 2021•24 min•Ep. 3
Welcome to the second Episode of INNOVATING FOR THE EARTH, with innovation expert and radio and TV presenter James O’Loghlin and Phil Hodgson, Managing Director and CEO of Cailx. In this podcast we’re exploring some new technology developed by Calix. In ep 1, we heard Mark Sceats tell us about the history of Calix, and how a simple idea became a global company. In this second episode, we take a closer look at the technology, to understand how the Calix calcination process can be used to develop ...
Jun 11, 2021•26 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to the first Episode of INNOVATING FOR THE EARTH, with innovation expert and radio and TV presenter James O’Loghlin. We live in a time of great change. Hardly anyone does things the same way as they did them 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, and the pace of change isn’t slowing down. Climate change will bring huge change to many industries, especially energy, and the drive to operate sustainability will intensify. This podcast is going to examine what one company, Calix is doing to identi...
Apr 21, 2021•31 min•Ep. 1
