Gaurab Chakrabarti
@Gaurab
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CEO @Solugen | MD/PhD building the modern chemical industry | Making molecules that power humanity | Takes on manufacturing, energy, molecules, and biology
United States
Joined December 2008
America's next revolution won't be in AI or crypto. It'll be in the world's most overlooked $6 Trillion industry. Chemicals. Here's the "96% efficient" breakthrough that will bring manufacturing back to the United States:🧵
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When does localized chemical production actually make sense?
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2,000 years ago, Rome's pepper trade ran through one Indian port: Muziris. It drained 50 million sesterces annually. When Rome's economy collapsed in the 3rd-5th century CE, the port lost its main customer and faded. A 1341 flood buried what remained under Kerala's coastline.
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From molecules to manufacturing — this is how we are going to break the chemical monopoly. I joined @jrwolfe on the Going Direct podcast to talk about leadership, innovation, and the future of sustainable production. Topics include: - Decarbonizing the $5T chemical industry -
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Bacteria help clean your drinking water. Between 1831-1866, cholera killed 40,000 Londoners drinking from the sewage-filled Thames. The crisis forced two revolutions: sewers to stop contamination, and water treatment to clean drinking water. Britain's 570 reservoirs average 120
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Data center power demand forecasts just jumped 40% in seven months, and it is hard to imagine that it will not continue to increase as we use AI tools more. We need new, clean, scalable energy sources. Fusion can’t come soon enough, there’s no time to waste.
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Traditional Petrochemical Process: - Based on hydrocarbons - 50-70% efficiency - Creates 30-40% byproducts/waste streams - Requires extensive distillation (energy-intensive) - Concentrated waste streams trigger regulatory scrutiny (permitting timeline: 3-5 years) @Solugen's
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Let’s just build a Church
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Space datacenters are a materials science problem: 1MW needs 2,800-10,000 m² of radiator in space (thermal radiation only, ~100-350 W/m²). On Earth, cooling towers use convection + evaporation and fit in a fraction of that space. The satellite becomes a giant heatsink with
"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space. In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth. In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense,
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We built a chemical plant next to a church. Permitted in under a month:
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Alien-tech startups are going to make AI giants look like lifestyle businesses.
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The chemical industry has a trust problem. And it's structural:
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Water can destroy steel. When it moves fast enough, pressure drops and vapor bubbles form. When those bubbles collapse, they create microjets that pit metal one tenth of a millimeter at a time, with temperatures near 8,600°F. It's called cavitation and it eats ship propellers,
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can’t be alone
BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system:
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Because you want to engage. Your work is derivative at best. It’s like a poor version of Anduril’s website. Be better
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