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#73 – Amrit Robbins: Cool global cooling cat.

• San Jose’s and San Francisco’s weather are very different.
• “Cat” is timeless within jazz music.
• CFBR means commenting for better reach.
• Friday flamingo party is Amrit’s neighborhood
• Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” got him very interested in climate change.
• Started in political science before changing to atmosphere and energy engineering.
• Net zero is a political issue, not technological.
• An idea for the next Austin Powers movie.
• Make refrigeration consume energy at a different time from when it provides cooling
• Axiom Cloud is doing well, but fighting resistance to change.
• Supermarkets have centralized refrigeration, not individual units.
• Amrit’s favorite energy storage is moderating demand.
• Big refrigeration gains are mostly behind us.
• In grocery stores, refrigerant leaks need addressing.
• Trumpet player since 4th
• In reggae, the trumpet is in the skank
• Reggae band suggestions – Fat Freddy’s Drop and Easy Star All-Stars
• Rusted Root is another band worth listening to.
• White nuthatch reminds Bert of camping
• Very thrilled and optimistic about AI.
• 1960s AI chatbot was called Eliza.

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#72 – Oliver Dewey: Using Beer to Make Carbon Nanotubes.

• Carbon nanotubes are not carbon fibers
  • And they have been made from beer
• Arnold Brewing founded in 1994.
• Chose chemical engineer over chemist because pay is better.
• Brewing the same tasting Budweiser all over the world is tough.
• Has worked for a couple of big brewers
• Dexmat developed Galvorn - lightest, strongest, most flexible conductive material
• Wool has curly fibers and know: Galvorn has straight fibers and no knots.
• Galvorn is piezoelectric and can be a strain gauge.
• Bucky balls invented at Rice University
• “The materials that built the modern world can't build what's next."
• Galvorn can replace copper and be structural at the same time.
• Likes to travel; Madrid, Spain is a favorite. A wine tour in France is on his to do list.
• Remember Y2K?

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#71 – Danno Cabeza: Engineer, Author, Army football fanatic.

• Has written two books. 2nd one, “The Return of Dr. Necropolis”, comes out Dec. 29, 2026.
• Has a process for writing, like an engineer would.
• Operates Asforfootball.com website and Asforfootball podcast about Army football.
• Jeff Kildow is the author of the alternate history book Bert described.
• Swam for West Point
• Got into electricity putting power poles.
• Essentially became an electrical engineer via on the job training.
• Had some good background from West Point.
• Had wanted to be a lawyer – hated the first class he took.
• Still hears “Book ‘em Danno” from Hawaii 5-0.
• He is optimistic for Army football.
• There is a real, but very unlikely, path for Army to win a national championship in football.
• Earl “Dutch” Clarke is on the NFL 100 year team but did not go to the University of Detroit. His son did.
• NIL money; name, image, and likeness; are changing college sports.
• West Point is like a family business. As is the army.
• Danno also ran Olympic length triathlons.
• Explanation of coins at military graves.
• Visiting Arlington National Cemetery
• Swimming relay across Long Island Sound
• Danno makes the best scrambled eggs.

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