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Watt It Takes
with Megan O’Connor

Megan O’Connor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nth Cycle. Their technology uses electricity to reliably recover minerals critical for solar panels and batteries from e-waste. In this episode, Emily sat down with Megan on Watt It Takes to hear her story and the story of Nth Cycle, from founding the company at age 27 to how Nth Cycle is taking advantage of incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act to develop domestic supply chains for critical minerals.

 
 
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Megan O'Connor

Co-Founder & CEO
Nth Cycle
 
 
 

Dr. Megan O’Connor leverages years of experience working on sustainable technology in many of America’s top research labs, where she helped develop the electro-extraction processes she and her team are commercializing at Nth Cycle. Prior to founding Nth Cycle, Dr. O’Connor was an Entrepreneurial Fellow in the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was a visiting researcher at Yale University’s Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering. Dr. O’Connor received her PhD in environmental engineering from Duke University and was recognized by Forbes on its “30 under 30” energy list in 2019.

 
 
 
"Nth Cycle is solving the need for critical minerals, the true building blocks of the clean energy economy. We have a severe lack of them here, especially in North America and Europe. And so we've developed a new refining technology that can help bring more of those to the market so that we can continue on our path towards electrification."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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