Transforming waste into clean energy? Yes, it’s happening! 💡 Join Sean Kelly and Jonathan Appel from Eden Energy for an exciting conversation on how this revolutionary technology is redefining green solutions. 🌍 From turning plastics, food waste, and even medical waste into clean energy to breaking down harmful chemicals at the molecular level, Eden Energy is tackling pollution like never before. 🔥 Discover the secrets behind their groundbreaking process, which boasts over 90% energy efficiency and 100% pathogen destruction. Jonathan also shares eye-opening insights on the challenges of recycling, the truth about renewable energy, and how this innovative tech could power the future while saving the planet. 🌱✨ This episode is packed with valuable insights, industry-changing revelations, and hope for a cleaner, greener tomorrow. Don’t miss out—tune in now and join the conversation! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - What is Eden Energy 01:35 - Dangers of Plastic Pollution 02:59 - Development of Energy Technology 06:32 - Understanding Pyrolysis Process 08:15 - Glyphosate and Its Impact 09:46 - Wind and Solar Energy Solutions 13:06 - Advancements in Electric Vehicles 15:56 - Collaborating with Family in Business 17:58 - Biochar's World-Changing Potential 20:02 - Overcoming Setbacks & Hurdles 24:02 - Addressing the Energy Crisis 26:48 - Ideal Living Locations 27:16 - Hurricanes and Carbon Dioxide Effects 31:11 - Importance of Regulation 33:18 - Transforming Waste into Energy 34:30 - Eden Energy's Public Offering 41:00 - Water Resource Management 43:55 - Exploring Alcohol Production 45:22 - Connecting with Jonathan & Eden Energy APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Eden https://www.instagram.com/jonathanappel13/ https://www.instagram.com/edenenergy.co/ https://edenenergy.co/ SPONSORS: AIRES TECH: https://airestech.com/ GROUND NEWS: https://ground.news/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #eco-friendlyinvestments #environmentalsocialgovernanceinvesting #eco-consciousinvestors #circulareconomy #greentechnology
Chapter 1: What is Eden Energy's revolutionary technology?
The hydrolysis is you oxidize and neutralize heavy metals, you break down pathogens. So we did a study with the DOD in the early days and New York State Department of Health, where we ran tests on Bacillium strep thymopolis and anthrax. And it's the only technology to ever receive 100% pathogen destruction on those pathogens.
Wow. All right, guys, we're talking energy today. We got Jonathan from Eden Energy. Thanks for joining us, man. Thanks for having me. Just had a fun event in Austin.
Yeah, it was a great time having you guys there and got to meet a lot of really cool and interesting people and tell our story a little bit and looking forward to telling a little bit more. Yeah, you set some stuff on fire over there, right? Yeah, we bought some of the fuel we made and we make fuel from anything carbon-based.
That specific sample was made with like mixed plastics, dog poop, food waste, used cooking oil, things like that. And we did a little burn ceremony where we asked the audience to write down what they want to let go of. And we put it in the fire pit, covered it in oil, and let those energies go into the atmosphere.
Yeah, with all the plastic going around the atmosphere, we need that right now, right? Yeah, for sure. And we finally have a solution to plastic. I mean... There really isn't one out there that is currently being utilized that actually gets rid of it down at the molecular level.
I mean, yeah, sure, you can pyrolyze it and turn it into basically a liquid plastic, which is a subset of fuels, but nothing really cleans up the mess that is in plastic. And we can do that because we break things down at the molecular level. Yeah. Why is plastic so dangerous?
You know, plastic is a tough one because there's all sorts of different compounds that they use, such as plasticizers and fillers, and they're all different, right? You have PET, which is made from CO2 condensation reactions, so there's a ton of CO2 in water bottles, right, the plastic that they use there, but then the plastic that you get, like your laundry detergent,
That's what they call high-density polyethylene, right, HDPE, and that's almost all oil, right? There's no condensation reaction used in that. So plastic is really difficult because you can't really recycle it, right? Recycling is such a head fake.
People believe that when they throw things away in the recycling bin, it's actually getting recycled, when 95% of what goes into the recycling bin doesn't end up recycled. It either gets landfilled or incinerated. Wow. So how does that process work? Which one? Like when you recycle something, does it go to a separate facility? Oh, sure.
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Chapter 2: How does Eden Energy tackle plastic pollution?
It was the scientific capital, really, of the Mayans, where the medicine men and the shamans lived. So we spent a lot of time in Tulum. My sister, about a decade ago, did a documentary called The Dark Side of Tulum. So the Mayans really have a major role in what we're doing because they were the original environmentalists, right?
The Yucatec is as fruitful as it is because the Mayans cultivated food forests all over the Yucatec, and now it just grows naturally. So it's really an amazing place, and the jungle is home, which is why I call Miami home. Only place in the continent of the U.S. I can get the jungle. Yeah, I love that. You mentioned hurdles earlier.
What were the biggest setbacks and hurdles throughout this 30-year journey? Sure. So Eden is actually the third company that we're going to be building to roll this out. The first company was Changing World Technologies. Did a lot of really great stuff. Tried to go public in 2008, and the IPO released the day before the market crashed. Bad timing.
Yeah, that was just one of those things where you're just like, Dang. But we restructured. We reorganized. Then in 2012, saw the biofuel market collapse. And that led to some hurdles with the board. And we ended up having, with everything that went on, we had to walk away from our own business. But thankfully, my father owned the technology outright.
So we got all the rights to the technology back. I mentioned the Mayans the same day a group out of Turkey, the same day we got all the rights back, which was actually my father's birthday in 2013. We got all the rights back. This group called us, a company called Maya. So we were like, oh, that's got to be fate. We did some research together.
And after the research at Lehigh University, they were all in. We formed a worldwide joint venture. I moved to Istanbul. I lived there about five years. That's where I met Gozde, who's here in the room with us. She's our co-founder at Eden and also my wife. And I spent five years living over there, advancing the technology even further.
We built a small version of what we call version two of the technology to demonstrate that we can process everything at once in an energy efficient way. We proved that out. We designed a 1,500 ton per day system for the city of Istanbul. We finished that design in May of 2016. And then in July of 2016, there was a failed coup d'etat. And the country has seen extreme economic turmoil ever since.
By 2008, pretty much everything was mothballed down. I moved back to the U.S. with Go's Day. I got involved in a stem cell startup, helped build that company. And then the pandemic kind of put things in a different perspective for me. I saw how really evil the biomedical industry was and realized that it was not
a career path for me i needed to do something different um so around april of 2021 i got connected to a guy starting a regenerative agriculture company um and i thought it was great jumped all in uh goes they uh joined a couple days after i did and as one of the founding partners we built that company for about a year and a half uh and then uh an opportunity arose for for me to start fresh brand new uh with everything that i had learned from my family's tech
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