Solar That Generates Both Heat and Power from the Same Rooftop

In this episode, Daniel Epstein talks with Christophe Williams, founder and CEO of Naked Energy, a company solving what Christophe calls "the warm elephant in the room." Heat accounts for more than half of all energy consumed on the planet and 40% of global emissions, yet it barely gets talked about compared to electricity. Most of it still comes from burning fossil fuels. Christophe's path to founding a solar thermal company is one of the more unusual ones you'll hear. He was a film editor for 15 years, cutting music videos for Diana Ross, editing a Joy Division documentary, working on global campaigns with Dennis Hopper footage. The pivot came from his grandfather, a physicist who worked on wave power and flywheel storage in the 1970s, and a question Christophe couldn't stop asking himself: "Could I live with myself if I don't give this a go?" He sold his house, took his kids out of private school, and went all in. That was more than a decade ago.