SpaDeX is awesome. India's space progress is a signpost for how much change we are about to see. SpaDeX following Chandrayaan-4 w/ autonomous docking @ 0.22mph = ISRO manned mission soon I expect. 🚀 🛰️

Per IEA India will add electricity demand equal to total UK system in next 3 years. 50% will come from renewables. The other 50% will come from coal. Yes coal! This dichotomy is brutal. 🔌💡

Coal: 1,000g CO2/kWh (IEA) Gas: 500g CO2/kWh (IEA) Bio (transatlantic): 300g CO2/kWh (E4Tech) ☀️ Solar: 50g CO2/kWh (IEA) Bio boasts, but shipping eats up savings. Let's choose wisely! 🔌💡

LiNa's first industrial pilot is online. Great to see our sodium battery energy storage cycling on the Indian grid - paving the way for economic load shifting and reduced coal usage. 🔌💡

Congratulations to ISRO for the successful launch of XPoSat on PSLV-C58, marking a milestone as India's first X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite launch - it will study the alignment of X-ray light waves from celestial sources. Black hole/ neutron star insights inbound. 🛰️

Reflecting on my COP28: Endless queue of energy storage companies want to invest billions in gigawatt-scale beyond-lithium storage in West. If one fails, another steps up. Meanwhile in Global South, absence of affordable practical solutions means that as the sun sets, coal and oil reign supreme.🔌💡

In a surprising turn of events, India returned the Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module to Earth orbit. The module had been in lunar orbit since August, but ISRO unexpectedly decided to bring it back to test technologies for a future lunar sample return mission. 🛰️ www.isro.gov.in/Ch3_Propulsi...

Busy 2 days at COP28 representing UK cleantech. Clear that the technologies we need tomorrow are already being developed, but we need better ways to bridge the gap between innovation and deployment. Tired of chasing shiny new things. Let's focus on making existing cleantech work!

Must-read for cleantech execs: "Climate Capitalism" is a practical roadmap to scaling and commercializing cleantech solutions, backed by real-world case studies.

The UK's grid overhaul faces a NIMBY roadblock. Renewable generation surges but infrastructure lags. Visual impact, property value fears, and policy gaps pose challenges. Balancing grid upgrades with community buy-in more cimplex than we thought? 🔌💡 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘It’s like buying an iPhone and not having a cable’: UK’s bid for net zero in the balance du...

As well as more clean energy, Britain (and the world) needs miles of extra cable to carry it. But a global shortage of components and skills means efforts to meet climate targets will go down to the w...

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CO2 emissions are just one (very important) piece of the climate puzzle. Excited to see diehards and innovators looking beyond emissions at COP28, exploring biodiversity credits as a powerful tool for climate action. www.discoverwildlife.com/news/what-to...

Nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity emergencies will be key to a successful COP28...

COP28 arrives in Dubai on the back of what is expected to be the hottest year in history. We take a look at what to expect...

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Flashback to the 1980s: The ZEBRA sodium battery cell. This often overlooked gem laid the groundwork for LiNa's cutting-edge technology. Leveraging proven, yet forgotten innovations can fast-track tech development. A nod to the past, powering our future. 🔌💡

2030: A pivotal year per IEA - oil demand can peak. Having been both sides (oil & gas now clean tech) I see a clear chance for the industry to scale innovative solutions. Need to think beyond lab... time for collaboration and investment to deploy great solutions. COP28. www.iea.org/reports/the-...

The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy Transitions – Analysis - IEA

The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy Transitions - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

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Me and my crew launching our own living room space program with the help of Starship. 👨‍🚀🧑‍🚀🧑‍🚀🐶🚀 🛰️

And they called it 'FatBoi 1'... 2.5 kWh module of LiNa sodium batteries ready for install. Go deeptech!

Cells, cells, cells. Module build day at the LiNa Engineering Dept. 🧂🔋

Repairing our path to actually achieve 1.5°C has to be a focus of COP28. Latest IRENA report paints a sobering assessment of our current trajectory. www.irena.org/Publications...

World Energy Transitions Outlook 2023: 1.5°C Pathway

This first volume of the 2023 Outlook provides an overview of progress by tracking implementation and gaps across all energy sectors, and identifies priority areas and actions based on available techn...

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Deep-tech is a cosmic game of Whac-A-Mole — we constantly hammer away at the unknown, and it's only when you step back that you realize you've actually built a constellation. Team LiNa assembling our first product-scale Sodium BESS for install in Dec. 🔌💡

India's energy challenges reveal major CO2e mitigation opportunities. Proactive focus on emerging markets can reshape our future. Excited to talk more at COP28. www.linkedin.com/pulse/coolin...

Cooling the planet with Coal!? 🔥🔥🔥 We Need to Count the Carbon Cost of Propping Up the Stat...

Sweating through my third shirt of the day in India last month, I saw first-hand how the limitations of lithium-ion storage are scuppering efforts to transition to clean energy alternatives. Part of t...

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'India, I reached my destination and you too!' Great to watch Chandrayaan-3 make soft-landing live from Mumbai Airport. Yay for progress! 🛰️

India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft undergoes another maneuver, comes even closer to Moon's surface. The spacecraft is now in a near-circular orbit of 150 km x 177 km, and is expected to make a soft landing on the south polar region of the Moon on Aug. 23. 🛰️

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully entered lunar orbit on Aug 2, 2023. The spacecraft is now on its way to the south pole of the Moon, where it will attempt to land on Sep 7. Chandrayaan-3 is the third lunar mission by India, and its goal is to study the Moon's surface and its environment. 🛰️

India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has successfully entered lunar transfer orbit which will reach the moon's orbit in about 5 days. The trans-lunar injection was performed on August 1st at 12:32 AM IST. Velocity increased to 2.38km/s. The spacecraft is scheduled to land on the moon on August 23rd. 🛰️

Permanent, additive carbon sequestration: mineralization is one option. Iceland's CarbFix project has successfully injected CO2 into basalt in the Hengill volcanic region and mineralized ~95% of injected CO2 within 2 yrs. 🧪 SRC: https://www.kseeg.org/journal/view.html?pn=search&uid=2184&vmd=Full

New image of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft taken by The Virtual Telescope Project. The spacecraft was imaged on July 25, 2023, after its orbit was successfully raised for the 5th time. 🇮🇳 🛰️

Carbon markets are facing disruption as investors weigh reputational risk. This has slowed or stalled new funding and disrupted the investment cycle. And these are regulated carbon markets. Hollow non-additive and non-permanent voluntary offsets are going to be put through the wringer... 🔌💡

Whales are carbon sinks. They store carbon (33 tCO2) & when they die, their carcasses sink to ocean floor, removing it from atmosphere for centuries. They also help phytoplankton grow, which captures carbon too. 🧪 SRC: https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00279-8

India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully completes 5th orbit-raising maneuver, raising its apogee to 127,609km and perigee to 236km. The spacecraft is now in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, preparing for its TransLunar Injection (TLI) towards moon on Aug 1. 🛰️

Not very interested in the prospect of a valuable crypto coin, but I do think a tokenized proof of being human is an interesting asset within an increasingly AI-infiltrated world. So I got ORB'd. https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/

1 GWh/2 GWh battery planned for Carlton. Still needs financing, but pace of scale growth is incredible. 3 years ago we were clapping hands for those bold enough to build a 50 MWh project. 🔌💡 https://etn.news/energy-storage/carlton-power-secures-permission-to-plan-2080mwh-bess-project