How Former SpaceX Engineers Are Turning Grass into Carbon-Negative Structural Panels
On this episode, Nathan Silvernail joins the show. He is the co-founder and CEO of Plantd—a company reimagining how structural building materials are manufactured. Before launching Plantd, Nathan spent nearly a decade at SpaceX, where he helped develop advanced manufacturing systems for the Crew Dragon spacecraft. He is now applying that same engineering mindset to one of the world's oldest and most resource-intensive industries: construction.
Plantd has developed a process that transforms fast-growing perennial grass into high-performance structural panels designed to compete directly with…
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