Pioneering Green Technology: An Insight into Orca Sciences' Groundbreaking Energy Inventions
In the ever-evolving landscape of sustainable technology, Orca Sciences continues to make waves. Founded in 2022 with the initiative Savor, focusing on sustainable food technology, Orca Sciences has since expanded its horizons, aiming to drive down global emissions and resource use.
One of Orca Sciences' latest spinout projects, set to launch around 2025-2026, is focused on ultra-cheap thermal energy storage for solar PV applications. This innovative project, incubated by Orca Sciences, aims to commercialize a modular storage system designed to provide large-scale thermal demand supply. The potential impact of this technology is significant, as it could repower coal power plants by using stored heat for steam turbines instead of burning coal, thereby decarbonizing and modernizing energy infrastructure.
The fundraising for this project is expected to close early in 2026, following prototype development and testing at a 100-kilowatt test site in Oklahoma during 2024-2025.
Meanwhile, Orca Computing, a spinout from Oxford University related in name and timeline, but distinct, is advancing photonic quantum computing systems. With deployments in the UK and the USA, including partnerships with Montana State University and integration with NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q toolkit, Orca Computing is pioneering quantum hardware and software solutions.
Other notable projects under the Orca Sciences umbrella include Savor, which creates real fats and oils chemically from carbon sources like CO2, without relying on animals, farmland, or traditional agriculture. Savor's innovations promise to reduce the environmental footprint of food production.
Lydian, another spinout from 2021, develops an electrified reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reactor to produce critical fuels and chemicals from CO2. Lydian aims to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors like aviation and chemicals.
Contrails, launched in 2021 by Orca Sciences, focuses on mitigating aviation's climate impact. Contrails develops systems to predict and avoid contrail formation, reducing contrail-induced warming.
Rudramani Pandey, the co-founder of Orca Sciences, leads the platform development, management, and enhancement. Kathleen Alexander serves as the CEO of Savor.
As Orca Sciences continues to grow and innovate, it remains committed to fostering solutions that reduce complexity and costs in sustainability, with the ultimate goal of driving down global emissions and resource use.
- Orca Sciences, an NGO specializing in environmental science and sustainability, continues to drive advancements in sustainable technology, particularly in areas like solar PV applications and thermal energy storage.
- Green initiatives at Orca Sciences include Savor, a research project that chemically produces real fats and oils from carbon sources, aiming to decrease the environmental footprint of food production.
- In the realm of data and cloud computing, Orca Computing, another spinout from Orca Sciences, is pioneering photonic quantum computing systems.
- Lydian, another Orca Sciences spinout, is working on an electrified reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reactor, with the goal of decarbonizing sectors like aviation and chemicals by producing critical fuels and chemicals from CO2.
- Orca Sciences' commitment to environmental-science extends to its projects in home-and-garden, such as Contrails, which focuses on mitigating aviation's climate impact by predicting and avoiding contrail formation.
- The innovative technology developed by Orca Sciences, like the ultra-cheap thermal energy storage project and the photonic quantum computing systems by Orca Computing, are poised to substantially impact climate-change mitigation and modernize energy infrastructure.
- Sustainable-living is promoted by Orca Sciences not only through its technological advancements but also by fostering solutions that reduce complexity and costs in sustainability, with the ultimate goal of driving down global emissions and resource use.
- Leaders at Orca Sciences, such as Rudramani Pandey and Kathleen Alexander, are dedicated to driving Orca Sciences' growth and innovation in environmental research and sustainable technology.
