2023年6月20日

喜欢这个故事吗?请分享!Techstars |海浪的可靠的能源岛社区Narayan艾耶长大在印度尼西亚共和国,一个国家超过17000个岛屿,其中一个最大的挑战的生活质量和经济活力的可靠力量。Narayan艾耶长大在印度尼西亚共和国,17000多个岛屿的一个国家,最大的一个挑战的生活质量和经济活力的可靠力量。今天,从他现在的大本营在爱荷华州爱荷华市IA,他致力于解决这个问题通过利用一个可用的最稳定和最可预测的可再生能源——海浪。相比之下,风能和太阳能的间歇性,需要昂贵的存储系统。艾耶是层流的创始人兼首席执行官科学公司,公司成立于2021年,是一个参与者的队列2中“Techstars产业未来的加速器。“他和其他九个企业家将出现在“未来的行业峰会”定于9点到下午5点。6月21日在轧机&我的,西方国家得宝大街227号,诺克斯维尔。注册,请点击这里。你可能会想,“艾耶怎么从印度尼西亚到爱荷华州的城市吗?” Well, like many individuals from other nations, he came for college in 2012, earning his B.S. degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering from Purdue University. After graduation, Iyer worked for nearly five years as a Platform Systems Engineer for Rockwell Collins. “It was a good experience in engineering leadership and systems engineering,” he said. Yet, at the same time, Iyer was troubled by the rising concerns about climate change generally and for island communities particularly. When COVID became a big issue in 2020, he began to develop ideas for ways to address the reliable energy challenges that countries like Indonesia face. “I developed a prototype and presented it at a conference,” Iyer says, adding, “It was well-received.” Two U.S. Department of Energy grants – each for $150,000 – followed as did a more recent $1 million contract with a Southeast Asia mining and energy company. The latter is what he describes as a patent licensing contract. In an undated article published by San Francisco-based KingsCrowd , Iyer described how he went from designing cockpits for NASA and Airbus airplanes to launching his own company. “I really felt like my attention needed to be paid to clean energy given the steep acceleration of climate change,” he told Zee Zhong of KingsCrowd. “I grew up near the ocean and always admired the enormous and constant power of waves. I knew this was the time to take the dive.” Now, two years into the entrepreneurial journey, Iyer says Laminar Scientific has secured two issued patents and has four more that are pending. The start-up’s initial product is named the MantaWave, a nearshore wave energy converter that “cups” oncoming waves to power linear generators. It is easy to set up and can produce 40 kilowatts from the power of ocean waves. That’s enough electricity to service 75 homes at a 56 percent reduction in cost. The MantaWave is ideal for the island communities that lack resilience, are faced with high energy costs, and rely too much on diesel fuel that must be shipped into power-generating capacity. Installation is also much simpler than for large systems, meaning drones or drivers are not needed. Instead, the WaveShark is towed to the location by another boat (see video illustration here ). The MantaWave also has five times fewer moving parts, and its shape can readily change to adapt to oncoming storms. Being located in landlocked Iowa might sound odd, but Iyer says the University of Iowa has one of the world’s best wave basin testing facilities. As for the reason for applying to be part of Cohort 2, he cites the partners, particularly Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Techstars itself. “We’re planning a project with ORNL,” Iyer says. “Techstars has some very good partnerships and sitting in the workshops is always insightful.”