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Rob Hanson

Co-founder & Senior Advisor, Monolith. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Hanson co-founded Monolith in 2012 to commercialize methane pyrolysis technology that uses clean electricity to convert natural gas into low-emission hydrogen and carbon black. Under his leadership as CEO, the company secured a conditional $1.04 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to expand production in Nebraska.

What they said7 What others said1 Shows1

Everything Rob Hanson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

CATALYST Insight

Hanson: Climate tech moats require fundamental science, not just rapid capital

“Like if you can build a company just by pouring, you know, capital on it in one or two years, I mean, you don't have a real moat. Maybe there's, you know, network effects and different things in software, but in climate tech, I mean, your moat comes from funda…”

Rob Hanson Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 35:26 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

CATALYST Assertion Supported

Hanson: Monolith has scaled methane pyrolysis to commercial operations

“And we started in 2012 have raised a lot of equity over the years and have taken technology that was almost there and got it to full commercial scale.”

Rob Hanson Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 7:36 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

CATALYST Opinion

Hanson: Hydrogen industry must replace color labels with lifecycle carbon metrics

“I mean, this stuff is sufficiently complex that we should be able to do good life cycle analyses, include all the upstream portions of it, and come up with You know, kilograms of CO₂ equivalent per kilogram of hydrogen or whatever the end product is. Like, we …”

Rob Hanson Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 10:21 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

CATALYST Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hanson: 100% of Sand Hill Road VCs rejected Monolith in 2012

“We started in twenty-twelve where, and we were in Silicon Valley, and we went to everyone on Sandhill Road, and precisely 100% of them said no.”

Rob Hanson Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 13:17 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

CATALYST Opinion

Hanson: Clean tech multi-plant rollouts cannot realistically be funded on equity alone

“I don't think the idea that you're going to Build, you know, multiple plants every year, repeatably all on equity is, is very real in the longterm.”

Rob Hanson Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 29:14 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

CATALYST Assertion Partly supported

Hanson: Monolith built the world's largest plasma torch exceeding 16 megawatts

“I mean, so the key to our process is you got to get this really high temperature heat generated electrically. And so we use a plasma torch and we've now built the largest plasma torch in the history of the world. It's over 16 megawatts. It's high nineties perc…”

Rob Hanson Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 38:06 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

CATALYST Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hanson: Black mulch at Home Depot likely contains Monolith's carbon black

“So if you go to Home Depot and you buy mulch that happens to be colored black, it's likely got monoliths carbon black in it that's making it black.”

Rob Hanson Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 45:35 Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

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2022 1 mention in 1 episode

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CATALYSTLEDGER	Co-founder & Senior Advisor, Monolith	1	7	50% 1/2	full record on Catalyst →