Malta has raised a $50 million Series B round to bring its super-long-duration energy storage to market, the company said Wednesday.
The startup spun out of Google parent company Alphabet s moonshot factory, X, in 2018. Many startups tackling energy storage breakthroughs have looked to batteries and other electrochemical devices. Malta turned instead to thermal energy: It uses grid power to compress air for storage in hot molten salts and cold antifreeze liquid. A heat engine later converts the energy back to electricity for consumption. This apparatus, in theory, allows for storing power economically on much longer timescales than is feasible with the lithium-ion batteries prevalent today.
to a story about someone who might become a millionaire but in the right way to silicon valley there s a start up with a difference in oklahoma farm boy had a vision he thought he could feet the world and in the process solve some of the most pressing problems faced by farmers and farming practices on the planet brandon alexander has started the world s first robotic farming enterprise other automated indoor farms have been tried previously a project by google x. laboratory flopped because the multi-well to have million dollar the tech giant couldn t make the economics work. after two years of tinkering the greens grown in this warehouse in san carlos california are finally making their way to people s cell of bowls iraq s uses hydroponics systems that conserve water and robots that reduce the need for employees. the department of agriculture says it s difficult to attract workers to u.s.
in this week s american opportunities segment she s a tech big wig who used to run google x, the group behind google glass and the driverless car. megan smith packed up earlier this year and moved to washington to become the chief technology officer of the united states. one of her goals is finding ways to bring access to technology and opportunity from it to those who need it most. for the country that has a rover on mars and we also have one in four american children in poverty, and so the opportunity to be part of the leadership team to unlock the talent of the american people both on the highest end you know where are we going to go what can we do and the amazing things americans do over and over and over again with our innovation and entrepreneurship but also how do we include more of the american people into what i call the innovation nation that we are, and how do we also bring some of our attention to our most pressing problems. we can bring our most innovative americans into
and really can be and can include everyone in. it sounds to me like poverty and income inequality is something that tugs at your heart a lot. i just think it s an extraordinary waste of talent. we have such low expectations for how to solve and for some of our young people like one group of young people gets to go to the science fair and work on all these internships and do this stuff and one group of young people is not expected to do that. we need to change that point of view. you can see more of poppy s interview on cnn.com. donald trump s not afraid of controversy as you know but this time even he may have gone a little too far, slamming john mccain s war record. the latest on the top story coming up. in a market with millions of inexpensive choices, u.s. head phone maker odyssey has captured the interest of audiophiles around the world.