{"id":40714,"date":"2023-01-18T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40714"},"modified":"2023-01-18T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:38:57","slug":"mars-rover-scientist-carbon-oxygen-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40714","title":{"rendered":"A Mars rover scientist is about to scale carbon-oxygen batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noon Energy<\/a>, which has developed \u201cultra-low-cost, high energy density carbon-oxygen battery technology for long-duration energy storage\u201d for solar and wind power, today announced that it\u2019s secured $28 million in Series A financing to commercialize its technology.<\/p>\n

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Boston-based Clean Energy Ventures and Aramco Ventures\u2019 new Sustainability Fund (as in, Saudi oil Aramco) led the round. Noon Energy previously closed on a $3\u00a0million seed round in April 2021.<\/p>\n

Chris Graves, Noon Energy\u2019s founder and\u00a0CEO (pictured above center), launched the company in 2018 after helping to develop NASA\u2019s Mars Perseverance rover MOXIE device<\/a>, which produces oxygen from the Martian carbon dioxide <\/sub>atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The 10-person team at Noon Energy has since developed a battery that stores energy in carbon and oxygen using \u201cnature-based chemistry principles.\u201d So metals such as lithium and cobalt aren\u2019t needed, and Noon Energy says its battery requires just 1% of other critical elements compared to lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n

The Palo Alto-based startup says its battery offers more than 100 hours of energy storage at at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries for long-duration storage. And because it\u2019s extremely dense, that means a compact footprint three times smaller than current lithium-ion batteries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the past 14 months, Noon Energy says its team has achieved a 50x scale-up of its core technology and that it plans to bring its battery to market in two years. \u00a0<\/p>\n

David Miller, cofounder and managing partner at Clean Energy Ventures, said:<\/p>\n

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Noon Energy\u2019s technology has far greater potential as modular, scalable, and low-cost long-duration energy storage than any other approach we\u2019ve ever seen, and therefore can enable any system, from a single home, to an entire grid, to run on 100% solar and wind.<\/p>\n

Noon\u2019s approach to long-duration storage is not only inspiring but proven, and we look forward to supporting this world-class team as they continue to scale and enable 100% renewables penetration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Noon Energy\u2019s website gives very little away, but it\u2019s hiring<\/a> in order to scale up. Its next move will be to build demonstration products to test its carbon-oxygen batteries in the field.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Noon Energy<\/em><\/p>\n

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Noon Energy, which has developed \u201cultra-low-cost, high energy density carbon-oxygen battery technology for long-duration energy storage\u201d for solar and wind power, today announced that it\u2019s secured $28 million in Series A financing to commercialize its technology. Boston-based Clean Energy Ventures and Aramco Ventures\u2019 new Sustainability Fund (as in, Saudi oil Aramco) led the round. Noon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}