Computing as a better battery – with John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna Computing, ep 35

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by AWS Energy.

This week our host Joe Batir talks with John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna Computing. Joe and John discuss Soluna Computing’s modular data centers and how they are paired with renewable energy to utilize wasted energy through batchable computing. Topics covered include the infinite need for computing power, how computing can be combined with renewable power generation to increase renewable energy penetration into the grid, and a quick crypto mining 101 primer.

John’s book recommendations:

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

You can find John’s entire 2021 booklist >> HERE.

Additional links from the show that were discussed can be found here:

(1) Bitcoin Primer — all about the Magic Machine is HERE.

(2) Episode with Dr. Andrew Chien on grid resiliency and renewable grid penetration can be found HERE. It’s episode 26.

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