The pioneer working to put the sun in a box to power a renewable future | Asegun Henry | TEDxBoston

We orbit a giant nuclear reactor (the sun) that could provide all the energy humans need.

To keep our planet habitable, transitioning to renewable energy is essential. The problem yet to solve for renewables to work at scale is to build batteries that can store the generated energy at utility scale.

Asegun Henry is using accessible materials and record-setting processes he invented to create an entirely new way to store enough energy to meet current and future demand. The technology is piloted and proven. Mass implementation is another matter.

Reimagining our entire utility system to support the renewable grid we need is no small feat. It requires unprecedented investment and unprecedented collaboration at unprecedented speed. This new technology is putting daunting task that within reach--if we act decisively.
Asegun, founder and CTO of Fourth Power, has spent the past decade developing new industrial-scale energy technologies to mitigate climate change. An MIT professor and renowned expert in heat transfer and high-temperature energy systems, Ase’s research has led to multiple scientific breakthroughs that have redefined the limits of what’s possible. His team is commercializing a new technology developed in his laboratories at Georgia Tech and MIT over the last decade.

Ase's research has led to significant advances to energy and heat transfer fields, namely: solar fuels and thermochemistry, phonon transport in disordered materials, and phonon transport at interfaces. His team developed the highest temperature pump on record, a technological breakthrough that opened the door for new high temperature energy systems concepts, such as methane cracking for CO2 free hydrogen production and a new grid level energy storage approach termed thermal batteries, known affectionately as “Sun in a Box”. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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