Episode 22: Varun Sivaram

On this podcast, Thomas Byrne, CEO of CleanCapital, sits down with Varun Sivaram, a thought leader in the clean energy space. This podcast discusses the bestseller’s new book “Taming the Sun”, which outlines the current clean energy landscape, and the advances needed to unleash it.

Besides being a writer, Varun Sivaram is a physicist and Chief Technology Officer at ReNew Power Ventures, a multibillion-dollar renewable energy firm. He is also a senior research scholar at Columbia University, a board member for the Stanford University Energy and Environment Institutes, and an editorial board member for the journal “Global Transitions”. Previously, Varun was a professor at Georgetown University and is a Rhodes and a Truman Scholar. Dr. Sivaram holds a degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from St. John’s College, Oxford University.

Transcript

Sc23980-sboyv0212.part02.rar May 2026

In the late hours of a Tuesday night, the file sat at 99.8% on Elias’s download manager. For three weeks, Elias, a digital archivist for "dead" software, had been hunting for the second piece of the SBOYv0212 archive—a rumored unreleased operating system from a defunct 1990s tech conglomerate.

When the progress bar finally turned green, Elias didn't hesitate. He combined the parts and hit "Extract." The Extraction sc23980-SBOYv0212.part02.rar

Instead of the usual splash screen or a folder of system files, the archive yielded a single executable: MEM_MAP.exe . Elias ran it on an isolated "sandbox" computer. The screen flickered, then settled into a deep, cathode-ray blue. In the late hours of a Tuesday night, the file sat at 99

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