What is the biggest energy challenges facing humanity?

The unsolved problem of energy storage has imposed itself to become the vital “fourth" pillar of the energy transition, alongside Generation, Transmission and Distribution.   The key point is that without  Permanent,  High-density,  Efficient, Energy Storage (PHEES), zero-emission  may never be reached -  i.e., humanity's efforts towards zero-emission will be gone in vain!

Renewables without PHEES cannot and will not be the answer!

No PHEES means no energy transition to zero-emission

Harnessing Quantum Tunneling To Achieve Seemingly Impossible Chemical Transformations

Critical To The Chemical And Energy Industries

• Novel hot electrons-based innovation to convert Methane to Methanol; Methanol to Ethanol and Hydrogen at ambient conditions.
• Converts water to hydrogen peroxide directly, when and where needed.
• Thrunnel technology was repurposed from a medical diagnostic application.
• Thrunnel technology has been validated by studies on laboratory scale reactors.
• The technology is under the patenting process in more than 65 countries.
• New patent applications are in the pipeline.

The Potential Ahead For Thrunnel Technology

› The globally patented Thrunnel zero-emission energy storage system will do for the energy supply chain  what refrigeration did to our food supply chain! 

› Electricity is meant to be used or lost!  Batteries can store electricity – but only temporarily and with ~70%  conversion loss!  Thrunnel converts electricity to liquid methanol with theoretical efficiency of 86%.  You  can  think of Thrunnel methanol as liquid electricity!

› It stores the otherwise non-storable or hard-to-store energy carriers (namely, natural methane, biomethane     and electricity) into hydrogen-rich liquids (namely, methanol and ethanol).  You can think of Thrunnel  methanol as chemically liquefied hydrogen. 

› Thrunnel introduces its methanol, produced at a fraction of the current cost, as the new hydrogen!   Methanol (at ambient conditions) has more hydrogen than liquid hydrogen (at -253 °C) on a weight-per- volume basis (99g/L vs 71g/L).   If methanol has more hydrogen than hydrogen itself, on a weight-per- volume basis, then think of methanol as the new hydrogen, which is the most energy intensive element .

› Thrunnel technology would allow cars to be easily fueled by methanol or ethanol at existing infrastructure,  but run on hydrogen produced on-site/ on-demand.  That will put the otherwise out-of-reach hydrogen  economy into action!