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#9 Sthyr Energy’s founders on vision for India’s long-term storage tech

In this episode, we bring you a conversation with Gunjan Kapadia, Akhil Kongara, and Muhammed Hamdan, co-founders of Sthyr Energy, who are developing a novel long-term energy storage solution that could play an important role in India’s transition to an economy led by renewable energy. In a world racing to electrify everything, one bottleneck keeps reappearing: how to store vast amounts of renewable energy cheaply, safely and for long periods of time. Lithium-ion batteries, the workhorse of today’s energy transition, were never designed to shoulder the burden of seasonal storage, back up islanded grids or replace diesel generators on remote military bases and infrastructure projects. At Sthyr Energy (https://www.sthyrenergy.com/) , the founders, who were all researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, are betting that the answer lies not in more lithium, but in a humble metal that India already knows well: zinc. They have set themselves an ambitious goal: to build zinc–air batteries that can store energy for months as dense zinc plates, without the steady self-discharge that plagues conventional batteries. Their design separates the “fuel” (zinc) from the battery stack, enabling long-duration storage, container-scale energy shipping and automated zinc replacement, while aiming for lifetimes that match solar and wind assets rather than today’s short-lived battery packs. In this episode, Gunjan (  / gunjankapadia9  ) , Akhil (  / akhil-kongara-aa824210a  ) and Hamdan (  / muhammed-hamdan-9182a096  ) talk about how they zeroed in on the idea of long-duration storage, the science behind their patents, and what it will take to make India’s own grid-scale battery technology that we might one day depend on.   Music Credit:Main Street by AudioCoffee | https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...