Watt It Takes
Hosted by Emily and Emily Kirsch · Emily Kirsch
4.9from 173 ratings
- 102
- Episodes
- 11
- Transcribed
- 173
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Watt It Takes
Our monthly podcast tells the stories of founders who are building our clean energy abundant future—their upbringings, their risks, their failures, and their breakthroughs that are transforming our world. Subscribe on Spotify or Apple to stay up to date with the latest episodes.
- Publisher
- Emily Kirsch
- Category
- business · business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Apr 2021
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
11 of 102 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Deep Fission Co-Founder & CEO Liz Muller
25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Crux Co-Founder & CEO Alfred Johnson
16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fervo Energy Co-Founder & CEO Tim Latimer (Re-Release)
Inside a recent episode
Deep Fission Co-Founder & CEO Liz Muller
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so it was much, much easier a second time around. In those early days, how are you and your dad, Richard, envisioning a nuclear reactor actually operating a mile underground and maybe start with how do nuclear reactors work above ground? Yeah, great question. So the basics of nuclear power is you take uranium-235, and this is a molecule that is so large that if you hit it, with an additional neutron, it's gonna break apart. And that's what a nuclear reaction, or that's what creates the energy, is when you take a large molecule, or any molecule, and it breaks apart. And breaking apart releases a tremendous amount of energy as heat, and you can then capture that heat. […]
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- Liz Muller
- Alfred Johnson
- Tim Latimer
- Ritu Narayan
- Josh Wong
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 107 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 66 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100
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- Quality
- 53
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Emily and Emily Kirsch host the show. Published by Emily Kirsch.
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