New Episode Featuring LOCOAL Founder Miles Murray

The Building Texas Show, hosted by entrepreneur Justin McKenzie, has released a milestone episode with returning guest Miles M. Murray, Founder and CEO of LOCOAL, a rapidly emerging leader in waste-to-energy and clean-carbon technologies. This marks Murray’s third appearance on the podcast, capturing each pivotal phase of LOCOAL’s evolution—from idea stage, to prototyping, to today’s commercial deployment.

In the new episode, Murray reveals a major breakthrough: LOCOAL’s first commercial full-scale unit has been installed just outside Houston, validating the company’s vision to transform organic and rubber waste into clean energy, high-purity bio-carbon, and advanced industrial inputs. The system represents an entirely new category of mobile modular bioenergy infrastructure designed to make landfills obsolete.

Turning Wood Waste and Tires Into Energy, Carbon, and Revenue

Murray explains how LOCOAL’s patented 50-foot system utilizes thermal decomposition, gas filtration, and bio-oil reclamation to convert wood waste, pallet tailings, storm debris, forestry byproducts, and even tires into clean power and sequestered carbon—while producing less than 1% ash.

“This world continues to compile massive amounts of underutilized resources we call ‘trash,’” Murray said during the interview. “But there’s enormous value inside that waste stream. We’ve built a system that goes to the source of the problem and turns what was once a cost into a revenue-generating feedstock.”

LOCOAL’s first commercial pilot is now operating at 4840 Solutions, the largest pallet recycler in the country, which generates significant wood waste from daily operations. The system eliminates the need for costly transportation and landfill disposal while producing usable commodities such as clean energy, bio-oil, and high-purity carbon.

A Solution for Wildfire Risk, Municipal Waste, and Industrial Sustainability

The episode highlights the growing urgency around wildfire mitigation in Texas, where Central Texas is 88% more likely to experience wildfire conditions compared to national averages. LOCOAL’s technology offers cities, counties, and landowners a measurable way to reduce combustible biomass accumulation while generating market-grade energy and carbon.

Murray also outlines how agricultural operations, concrete manufacturers, steel producers, filtration companies, and battery researchers are increasingly turning to high-purity biochar as a critical input for next-generation materials.

A Breakout Year Ahead

With over $250 million in letters of intent and $50 million in strategic commitments through Curtis Stout Power, LOCOAL is now scaling production and preparing for national deployment. Its newly issued U.S. patent (with protections through 2044) positions the company as a category-defining leader in decentralized energy and carbon-negative infrastructure.

“2026 is the breakout year,” Murray says. “We’re moving from commercial pilots to full market deployment with buyers and operators across the country. What once was waste will now become a powerful part of the American energy and carbon economy.”

Listen to the Full Episode

The new episode featuring Miles Murray of LOCOAL is available now on The Building Texas Show across all major podcast platforms. Like and Subscribe on YouTube!