No, not the folically challenged, but Build-anywhere Ling duration, intermittent energy storage.
At Hyperion we’re really enjoying working with leaders in this field. Utilising existing technologies, processes and skills. Companies like Malta Inc, Highview Power and Energy Vault are working on Gigawatt scale solutions. More versatile than pumped hydro, and cheaper to deploy. For some insight listen to my podcast interviews with Malta CEO Ramya Swaminathan and Highview Power CEO Javier Camino in the This week in cleantech series, via iTunes, Spotify etc
The future will be renewable, if we are to have a future, and our clients are leading the way.
Governments still believe that wind and solar power are too intermittent to become the backbone of our energy system. “Oil and gas will be needed for decades to come,” they cry, like overgrown children scared to give up their security blankets. Even climate campaigners discuss the need for expensive nuclear power, or that long-promised mirage that never seems to get any closer — carbon capture and storage (CCS).