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The Most Important Chemical You've Never Thought About
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%