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IIT Madras Startup Sthyr Energy Turns Electricity Into Storable Metal
Varun Guru highlights Sthyr Energy, a startup founded by three IIT Madras scientists, which converts electricity into metal that can be stored for months and later converted back. He argues it could enable long-duration storage and transport of renewable energy.
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These three IIT Madras scientists are insane.
Their startup Sthyr Energy is literally turning electricity into metal.
Which you can keep for months and turn it back into electricity when you need it.
And this is incredibly huge.
Let's break this down.
Right now, India alone generates enough renewable energy to power countries like France.
But we can either use it as soon as its generated or its lost forever.
Because no one has figured out a way to store electricity for more than a few hours at scale.
If Sthyr's solution works - we won't just be able to store it for years but we could also transport it on roads - without creating any new infrastructure.
And it would change how the world uses electricity forever.
Their startup Sthyr Energy is literally turning electricity into metal.
Which you can keep for months and turn it back into electricity when you need it.
And this is incredibly huge.
Let's break this down.
Right now, India alone generates enough renewable energy to power countries like France.
But we can either use it as soon as its generated or its lost forever.
Because no one has figured out a way to store electricity for more than a few hours at scale.
If Sthyr's solution works - we won't just be able to store it for years but we could also transport it on roads - without creating any new infrastructure.
And it would change how the world uses electricity forever.
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