Clean power, explained through real infrastructure.
Inevitable is a measured interview show about the hard mechanics of energy transition. Its conversations move from company origin stories into reactors, balloons, batteries, buildings, capital, and the markets that decide what gets built.
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Inevitable is an interview-driven climate and energy show with a strong bias toward how things get built. It spends less time on abstract urgency and more time on the machinery, financing, and deployment models behind new infrastructure. Recent conversations move across prefabricated nuclear power, natural hydrogen, modular generators, electric motorcycles, space solar, atmospheric sensing, building energy economics, and global energy access. The range is broad. The method is consistent. A guest introduces a company or project, and the conversation steadily tests the idea against cost, reliability, regulation, customer need, and scale. Nuclear is discussed through reactor buildings, fab yards, gas turbines, and the problem of getting private lenders comfortable. Natural hydrogen is framed through seismic data, subsurface traps, reservoir size, and Midwest fertilizer production. Mainspring Energy’s generator becomes a way to talk about power reliability, fuel flexibility, and smaller modules that can be maintained without taking an entire site offline. Zeno’s motorcycles are treated not just as vehicles, but as energy infrastructure with batteries, swap stations, fast charging, home charging, and recurring customer energy use. Overview Energy’s space solar episode turns a futuristic premise into a market design problem involving capacity reservations and photon bidding. Windborne’s balloons make weather forecasting feel like a data infrastructure challenge. Daisy Chain Energy turns apartment buildings and hospital campuses into a discussion of submetering, rate classes, and grid flexibility. The show’s strongest quality is its patience. It lets complicated systems remain complicated, then keeps translating them into concrete examples until the business logic is clear. That makes it useful for listeners who already care about climate technology but want sharper detail on deployment. It is not a quick headline show. It is a working map of the energy transition, drawn through founders, operators, investors, and the constraints they face.
Made for: Built for listeners who follow climate technology, energy markets, infrastructure, venture-backed hardware, or industrial decarbonization. It especially suits people who want the operational details behind ambitious clean-tech claims.
What sets it apart: Inevitable stands out by pressing past the headline technology into the practical stack underneath: financing, modular construction, customer economics, grid constraints, permitting risk, and deployment speed. The tone is curious and controlled rather than promotional.
Join Cody Simms each week as he engages with experts across disciplines to explore innovations driving the transition of energy and industry. Inevitable is an MCJ podcast. This show was formerly known as 'My Climate Journey.'
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Inevitable makes climate technology concrete by tracing how ambitious energy systems move from technical premise to finance, infrastructure, and deployment.
Inevitable follows ambitious climate and energy technologies to the point where engineering meets financing, regulation, and deployment. Cody Sims conducts focused interviews with company leaders and other practitioners, moving quickly from the headline idea to the machinery…
Buried hydrogen gets a fertilizer-plant sizing question from Cody Simms before you can call it sci-fi.
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A grounded look at nuclear power as a construction and finance problem, with AI data centers adding urgency.
Blue Energy's nuclear pitch begins with the bottleneck that most clean-power optimism eventually meets: construction. Jake Jurowicz lays out a plan for standardized plants assembled as large modules in shipyards and fab yards, then barged to their sites, paired with a patented…
A clear, grounded look at buried hydrogen's possible role in Midwest fertilizer production.
Natural hydrogen is treated here less as a curiosity than as a practical industrial question: whether buried hydrogen might one day feed ammonia and fertilizer production in the U.S. Midwest.
A clear, grounded look at modular generation as power demand runs ahead of infrastructure timelines.
Inevitable turns the power-demand squeeze into something tangible by staying close to Mainspring Energy's linear generator. Shannon Miller, the company's co-founder and president, walks through a low-temperature, flameless reaction that moves magnets through copper coils to make…
A Kenyan electric motorcycle opens onto the business logic of a distributed renewable energy utility.
Zeno comes through as an infrastructure company disguised as an electric motorcycle business. Michael Spencer, its CEO, lays out how a roughly $1,500 bike, removable batteries, and a network of just under 200 charge points across greater Kenya support a battery-as-a-service…
A clear, grounded look at satellite-enabled solar power and the market design that could make it useful.
Inevitable looks at Overview Energy's plan to keep solar farms producing after sunset. Mark Bertie, the company's co-founder and CEO, lays out a system in which geosynchronous satellites gather continuous sunlight and send it down as a broad, eye-safe band of near-infrared light…
Weather balloons emerge as the quiet layer behind forecasting.
The piece makes the hidden machinery of forecasting feel unusually clear. It follows John Dean and Windborne through weather balloons, showing how they travel for weeks, move up and down through the troposphere, and reach the part of the planet where routine observation does…
Energy access framed through finance, policy, and practical scale.
The episode frames energy access as a development story with real financing consequences. Ashwin Dayal walks through the Global Energy Alliance, first-loss capital, and the harder job of bringing clean, reliable electricity to places where the grid still does not reach.
A careful look at how climate work is being reorganized around power and systems change.
Inevitable frames Eugene Kirpichov, co-founder and executive director of Work on Climate, in a conversation about how the climate tech movement is adjusting its language and priorities. It links the U.S.
Clean energy leadership, told through company builders.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Cody Simms interviews Cyrus Wadia, CEO of Activate, a nonprofit that helps scientists commercialize hard tech innovations.
This episode features an interview with Suvi Sharma, CEO of SolarCycle, discussing the emerging need for solar panel recycling as global solar deployment grows exponentially.
This episode features Katherine Boyle and Aaron Price-Wright from Andreessen Horowitz discussing their American dynamism practice, which focuses on investing in companies addressing critical national interests like aerospace, defense, and energy.
This episode features an interview with Arvind Ganesan, CEO of Forth Power, discussing their innovative tin-powered thermal energy storage system designed to support renewable energy grids.
Cody Simms interviews Sharon Schneider, founder of Integrated Capital Strategies, about rethinking family office strategies.
Inevitable host Cody Sims interviews Jake Jurowicz, co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy, about prefabricated nuclear plants and a gas-to-nuclear construction sequence.
Inevitable host Cody Sims interviews Coloma co-founder and CEO Pete Johnson about naturally occurring hydrogen and its proposed use in Midwest ammonia production.
Shannon Miller, co-founder and president of Mainspring Energy, describes a Stanford-originated linear generator that converts natural gas, biogas, propane, ammonia, or hydrogen into electricity without combustion.
Michael Spencer, CEO of Zeno, describes the company as an electric motorcycle business that also sells battery access and energy as a distributed utility.
Inevitable host Cody Sims interviews Mark Bertie, co-founder and CEO of Overview Energy, about satellites that beam near-infrared light onto existing utility-scale solar farms.
This episode explores Stanford Climate Ventures, a program that transforms students into climate tech founders through a project-based course that has helped launch companies raising billions in capital.
John Dean, co-founder and CEO of Windborne Systems, makes the case for why weather balloons still matter.
Alex Blumberg discusses his startup Daisy Chain Energy, which turns commercial buildings into flexible grid assets to address grid stress through rate arbitrage and real-time monitoring.
Inevitable speaks with Ashwin Dayal about energy access, capital design, and the Global Energy Alliance.
This episode explores how Roon's modular micro data centers use stranded renewable energy from solar and wind sites to power AI compute, addressing inefficiencies in the current grid and data center systems.
Cody Sims talks with Eugene Kirpichov, co-founder and executive director of Work on Climate, about a moment when climate work is being redefined.
This episode features Hudson Gilmer, CEO of LineVision, discussing how his company's technology helps utilities monitor and increase the capacity of existing transmission lines to address grid constraints without building new infrastructure.
This episode features an interview with the co-founders of General Galactic, a startup that converts captured CO2 into carbon-neutral synthetic natural gas using space-inspired technology.