Schroeder: Thermal storage IP cannot stop rivals using alternative cycles
Dave Schroeder · When will batteries take over the world? · Mar 17, 2022 · at 47:29
Dave Schroeder, CTO of Volta Energy Technologies, explains the investment challenge of backing thermal energy storage technologies given the abundance of alternative thermodynamic cycles.
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“They might have intellectual property that prevents someone from directly copying what they're doing, but they can't stop all of these other people who could generate nominally the same performance from pursuing what they're pursuing.”
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