Forbes 30 Under 30 - Danielle Fong May Save the World

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Isentropic in the UK is doing something even more interesting, storing energy as heat in gravel! Tough to get the efficiency up, but those Cambridge boys have as good a chance to do it as any

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Nonetheless, something needs to be done about the grid stability problems. For as long as we keep incentivizing renewables, we're going to keep getting brownouts unless we can balance the grid.

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And why hasn't anyone else thought of doing this for energy storage already?

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Also, won't it rust, or freeze?

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People have been working on compressed air for more than a century. Adding water to improve the efficiency back in 1870! It was abandoned because of technical problems. What makes here think anything has changed since then?

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and Bharat Raj Singh and Onkar Singh made air power concept. so Danielle's isn't totally new -- why aren't indian on Forbes list?

[abjaysukhar]

even earlier Arshdeep Singh made an air power moped...

[abjaysukhar]

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi is even more prodigy... he topped college at 10 and earned masters at 12!!

[abjaysukhar]

also Vinod Khosla Lightsail's funder is indian!

[abjaysukhar]

also the great famous company Tata in India is making air car... why did Danielle and LightSail stop making air car?? I want one

[KeroroGunsouTX]

Wow, she has a deep voice. >_>

[MrYnotkavon]

Danielle Fong is amazing...a gift to humanity; you, Mr. Noer, squandered this opportunity to talk to one of the greatest minds of our time by asking inane and obvious questions. Thank you, Danielle, for LightSail and the good work you and your colleagues are bringing to the world.