with ?️ Carol Maxwell - CEO & Director of MICROrganic Technologies and a Founding Member of ENYA Funds 1, 2, &3 
with ?️ Brent Solina - CTO of MICROrganic Technologies 
? MICROrganic Technologies builds a Microbial Fuel Cell platform that aims to change the way the world deals with wastewater

What we covered:

? How Microbial Fuel Cells open a new paradigm in plant operation - the era of bacteria that can communicate and interact with your Google Calendar 
?‍? How limited we are today, with our chemical tests and lab analysis 
? How we don't know much about the root cause of most of the upsets a wastewater treatment system encounters 
⚒️ How Microbial Fuel Cells work and how their core characteristics trigger the operation opportunity we just described 
⚡ How wastewater treatment blowers represent 3-5% of the US's energy use and how microbial fuel cells could enable turning them down 
? How microbial fuel cells could represent an overall decrease of 85-90% in energy use 
? How beyond today's benefits of microbial fuel cells, there's even more to come tomorrow with for instance microbial desalination cells 
? How MICROrganic Technologies' VIVA modular series could be the fundamental brick for those future applications 
0️⃣ How it all boils down to a fundamental feature of Microbial Fuel Cells: they set the path for a decarbonized wastewater treatment 
? How MICROrganic interacts with companies and acceleration programs the like of Xylem's Innovation Labs 
? How anybody can take off a start-up, assuming you’re creative enough and push hard enough. 
? How you can learn sales and marketing the hard way, and how that’s beneficial to aspiring entrepreneurs. 
? How the bottleneck to turn MFCs into a large-scale solution lies on the cathode’s hardware - and how MICROrganic strives to solve it. 
? How building an MFC is very close to making a battery - just with additional constraints, using wastewater as a fuel 
?? How large and small plants have different challenges and how that reflects in their KPIs. 
? How MICROrganic’s product works yet isn’t fully ready for commercialization - and what the next steps are. 
? Wastewater being liquid composting, wastewater containing 7x the energy needed to treat it, VIVA being the size of a refrigerator, MFCs powering predictive maintenance and potentially decentralized systems, VIVA being a kind of biosensor... and much more!
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➡️ Send your warm regards to Carol on LinkedIn 
➡️ Make sure to also reach out to Brent over there   
➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Microbial Fuel Cells  can turn plant operation on its head!