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Problems worth solving

Apr 11, 20251 min read

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  • Long-duration energy storage / The Duck curve
  • Hard to abate sectors: Decarbonizing cement, Decarbonizing steel, Decarbonizing ethylene, and Decarbonizing ammonia
  • What technologies and policies would ensure that the developing world becomes wealthy in a clean, sustainable way?
  • Residential decarbonization in hard-to-electrify urban areas (e.g. dense cities)
  • The transmission & distribution grid cannot handle all-electric winter heating
  • Forest fires!!
  • Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) enabled by bidirectional plug-in electric vehicles

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  • MIT Proto Ventures
  • David Cohen-Tanugi