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The Most Important Chemical You've Never Thought About

The Most Important Chemical You've Never Thought About13. Apr.38 Min.

Chlorine is in your pipes, your microchips, your drinking water and somehow nobody talks about it. Roxanna Delima, Co-founder and CBO at Rushnu, breaks down why this overlooked chemical is critical to US manufacturing and how her team is flipping the script on a 100 year old industry by using heat instead of electricity and turning waste carbon into actual product. No government subsidy dependence, no gigaton fantasies, just hard tech with a real business model.

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0:00 Intro and background on Roxanna

2:05 What is Rushnu and the chlorine industry

4:22 The product and why chlorine matters

6:36 How traditional chlor alkali works and its problems

8:01 Rushnu's thermochemical approach

9:30 How costs are cut by 60%