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.
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