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Qnetic
Приєднався 2 лют 2023
Imagine a world where our energy needs are met without harming Earth, where the air we breathe is pure and the ecosystem is vibrant. We can power our lives with clean, sustainable energy.
At Qnetic, we are dedicated to making this world a reality. Our mission is to revolutionize the energy industry through our advanced flywheel energy storage systems, capable of storing massive amounts of energy.
With our innovative technology, we can shift the timing of energy consumption, providing reliable energy when it is needed most. Energy storage is the key to unlocking the full potential of renewable energy and the end of fossil fuels.
🙌 Check out our WeFunder campaign to join us in making a difference: wefunder.com/qnetic
At Qnetic, we are dedicated to making this world a reality. Our mission is to revolutionize the energy industry through our advanced flywheel energy storage systems, capable of storing massive amounts of energy.
With our innovative technology, we can shift the timing of energy consumption, providing reliable energy when it is needed most. Energy storage is the key to unlocking the full potential of renewable energy and the end of fossil fuels.
🙌 Check out our WeFunder campaign to join us in making a difference: wefunder.com/qnetic
The Genius of Qnetic's Rotor
At Qnetic, our rotor design is the foundation of our core technology-revolutionizing how we store renewable energy.
🔍 Check out the video to see What makes Qnetic’ rotor genius!
📹 Video Highlights:
✨Innovative architecture: Inspired by pressure vessel design, crafted with advanced carbon fiber for unmatched strength and efficiency.
✨Cutting-edge manufacturing: Filament winding technology precisely aligns every fiber, creating a rotor that’s lightweight, incredibly strong, and capable of storing massive amounts of energy.
✨Engineered for excellence: Rigorous testing ensures durability and reliability at extreme speeds, making it a breakthrough in high-capacity, cost-effective energy storage.
🚀 Be part of the revolution.🔋 We’ve opened this transformative opportunity to everyone. Invest in Qnetic on Wefunder and join us in building a 100% renewable energy future.
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#RenewableEnergy #EnergyStorage #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechStartups #Sustainability #Crowdfunding #VentureCapital #GreenTech #FutureOfEnergy
🔍 Check out the video to see What makes Qnetic’ rotor genius!
📹 Video Highlights:
✨Innovative architecture: Inspired by pressure vessel design, crafted with advanced carbon fiber for unmatched strength and efficiency.
✨Cutting-edge manufacturing: Filament winding technology precisely aligns every fiber, creating a rotor that’s lightweight, incredibly strong, and capable of storing massive amounts of energy.
✨Engineered for excellence: Rigorous testing ensures durability and reliability at extreme speeds, making it a breakthrough in high-capacity, cost-effective energy storage.
🚀 Be part of the revolution.🔋 We’ve opened this transformative opportunity to everyone. Invest in Qnetic on Wefunder and join us in building a 100% renewable energy future.
🔗 wefunder.com/qnetic/?
#RenewableEnergy #EnergyStorage #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechStartups #Sustainability #Crowdfunding #VentureCapital #GreenTech #FutureOfEnergy
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Відео
Qnetic Two-Minute Pitch (HAX’s San Francisco Demo Day, Sept 2024)
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Check out Qnetic’s CEO Michael Pratt presenting a two-minute pitch to VCs, summarising Qnetic’s core strengths as well as Qnetic’s company traction.
Story Behind Vega
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👀Take a closer look at the people and the innovations behind Qnetic‘s first full-function prototype ‘Vega’! 🔋 Creating Vega has been full of challenges: some on the ‘drawing board’; some on the workshop floor. But the company is fortunate to have an incredibly talented and competent team, meaning each challenge we faced was met with creativity and resilience. A year in the making, Vega is somet...
Public Debut of our Cutting-Edge Prototype, Vega! 🚀
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Last week we launched Vega to the world, where around 50 investors and captains of industry came to witness a live demo. With Vega towering above them, the crowd were captivated by Vega smoothly charging from and discharging back to the local grid, with a data-feed of the system and a live video of the rotor spinning silently inside. ✨ Vega is a technology demonstrator that already contains all...
Meet Vega: Qnetic’s Quarter-Scale Prototype
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🌟 Qnetic has reached an epic milestone! 🎉We’re proud to introduce Vega, our 20kWh/5kW prototype that seamlessly charges from and discharges to the grid. Vega demonstrates our core technologies and solves the key engineering challenges of our groundbreaking product. 🚀 This huge leap forwards brings us closer to revolutionizing the energy industry with our high-performance solution. 📹 Check out t...
Sub-critical Bearing Assembly Complete!
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🎥 We’ve just completed assembly of a crucial system guiding Qnetic’s rotor: the radial bearings. Our innovative arrangement comprises two parts: the active magnetic bearing, and a 'subcritical' low-speed bearing. 🚀 Qnetic’s subcritical bearing is unique in flywheel energy storage and is covered by our patent application. It forms an integral part of our special three-bearing arrangement, settin...
How We Reduce Qnetic Manufacturing Carbon Footprint
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🌿 The reason Qnetic exists is to do a fundamental good in the world. Our product is intended to displace fossil fuel emissions, so if we can manufacture enough of them, its net benefit should be massive. Lithium-ion battery production heavily relies on materials like lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Sourcing these materials sustainably poses challenges. But Qnetic has it's own challenges too. 🌈 As ...
Vega Prototype Powering System Testing
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🎥 The gateway for electrical power in and out of Qnetic is our motor-generator. We are excited to share that we have received this critical part and our engineers are ensuring everything fits perfectly into our setup. 📈 Our initial testing for Vega will see us reaching 83Hz or 5,000rpm. But this is pretty slow for us… Our first-generation product is intended to spin at 200Hz or 12,000rpm! 💥 🌟 S...
Rotor Balanced and Ready to Spin!
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🌟 Exciting sneak peek into R&D: Rotor Balancing Testing for Vega! 🌟 When something spins, it wobbles. Some degree of wobble is unavoidable-the question is how small the wobble can be. That’s down to minimising unbalance, which is achieved by adding or removing mass here and there to cancel-out the small unbalance that was already present from manufacture. 🔬Tackling unbalance to minimise wobble ...
Renewable Energy Intermittency Challenges
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We’ve designed a solution that seamlessly aligns with the daily cycles of renewable energy, storing both wind and solar power so it can be used 24/7. 🌬️☀️ With a capacity of 2,000 kWh and a discharge duration ranging from 4 to 12 hours, Qnetic’s solution addresses the massive need for intra-day energy storage, solving the intermittency of renewable energy sources. 🔄⚡ Follow us for more details ...
Why is Qnetic half the price of Lithium-ion Batteries?
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🌱 Today, traditional lithium-ion energy storage comes with a hefty price tag, at around $250/MWh for utility-scale installations (measured as levelized cost of storage-LCOS). 💰 Qnetic offers an alternative solution that’s high-performance, scalable, and comes at a fraction of the cost of lithium-ion. 🌐 Qnetic's breakthrough lies in our innovative approach, check out the video to see why Qnetic ...
The Secret of Qnetic's Frictionless Bearing
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🌟 Exciting Update: Our lab just received a critical prototype component Qnetic’s frictionless Active Magentic Bearings! 🛠️✨ Dive into the video to uncover the magic of Qnetic’s contactless bearings! 🚀 Our active magnetic bearing is one of the key bearings in our design, keeping the shaft in the center by detecting its movements and making tiny adjustments thousands of times a second. 🔄💡 Why is ...
Zero Degradation Battery is Possible?
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🌐 Is a zero-degradation battery possible? Yes! Dive into Qnetic’s innovative mechanical battery technology in this video.🎥 💡Unlike traditional batteries, our mechanical battery operates without the constraints of chemical reactions, enabling us to harness 100% of the energy capacity at every cycle, even after 20 years operation. Our Qnetic rotor elegantly spins in a vacuum on a magnetic cushion...
3 Reasons Lithium-ion Batteries Might Not Power the Future
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🔍 Why Lithium-Ion Batteries Could Fall Short in Our Energy Future 🏭 While lithium-Ion batteries have dominated portable electronics and electric vehicles, grid-scale storage is a different game. 🎬 Check our latest video to find out why. 📉 Cycle Life and Degradation: lithium-ion batteries face limitations from a low cycle life and performance degradation, especially in grid-scale applications wh...
Qnetic H1 2023 Update: “How will Qnetic get prototypes built and tested?”
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Qnetic H1 2023 Update: “How will Qnetic get prototypes built and tested?”
Breakthrough Flywheel Energy Storage Prototype!
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Breakthrough Flywheel Energy Storage Prototype!
Qnetic‘s Latest Functional Scale Model for Renewable Energy Storage
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Qnetic‘s Latest Functional Scale Model for Renewable Energy Storage
Introducing Qnetic Flywheel Energy Storage-the Energy Revolution!
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Introducing Qnetic Flywheel Energy Storage-the Energy Revolution!
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Really good to see this ongoing dialogue. The Qnetic story is inspiring. It’s ‘revolutionary’!
Love this, can Vega be used for home energy storage as an alternative to batteries?
à 0:04 on reconnait un bon GMP ! IUT never die brother !
what kind of bearing do u use, is the flywheel in a vacoum and what kind of sealing do you use?
the welds on your prototype dont look good to me.
Old technology. What is the round trip storage efficiency, losses over time, machine cost per kWh, machine life. Can it compete with batteries?
We expect 85% RTE and ~0.5% per hour energy losses. $150/kWh and it outperforms Li-ion batteries due to zero degradation and unlimited daily cycling.
@@dt00map Measuring losses in hours is a bad start. Batteries cost about the same and getting cheaper, its when you add all the conversion equipment and profit it gets expensive. You mean it out performs batteries in degradation, it does not "outperform Li-Ion" in every aspect. This type of equipment has been available for decades, what's special about this? High rpm because its carbon reinforced?
Your website product page has a 2030 projection cost of $101/MWh. I think you mean $101/kWh.
It's correct: that is a 'levelled cost of storage' figure of $101/MWh. It is not Capex, which would be $150/kWh.
4 hours of storage on a flywheel of that shape? I don't think so... Flywheel storage systems already exist, and they are used purely as a carry over for things like data centers to keep them running long enough to start a generator. You can't fool physics, this is a scam.
They should wear covid masks too.
So a bigass flywheel that needs extra careful manufacturing, is by definition extremely heavy so hard and expensive to ship, has a linear charge and discharge curvature making it hardly usable for practical energy storing compared to batteries. Yeah this sounds like a pump and dump project. Only situation where it would make sense is an isolated, small consumption household. But then it doesn’t since it needs to be shipped and installed making it prohibitively expensive. In which scenario does this make the slightest sense compared to batteries for household energy storage and water dam for large scale energy storage?
At some point i was like "i mean, in theory it works, if the materials used are cheap enough it could cost less to make than a lithium battery, and if the discharge works well enough, then it's not a bad project" And then you mentioned SHIPPING the thing, and i was like "oh." Aren't lead-acid batteries dirt cheap, rather powerful and with a pretty long life ? (And not that difficult to recycle, you melt the lead and neutralize or recycle the acid). Lead batteries are heavy, but pretty compact and definitely easier to ship and use in a home. It's pretty much just car batteries, and it's old technology at this point.
Claims to be nearly half the price as equivalent Li-Ion at full scale. If it has more or equal longevity then is viable. Look at the site. At least doesn't require rare metals.
@@milolouis they can claim whatever they want on their own website. I’ll wait for a 3rd party technical analysis or complete and comprehensive proof and measure of their claims to begin to give them any credit
@@jeanladoire4141 Even lead batteries are not that worth to ship compared to li ion/li po/ li po fe Yet that would cost a fraction to ship for the same capacity as the flywheel.
@@milolouis yes the absence of rare earth metals is the biggest upside. But if ecology was above economy, we’d have glass bottles instead of plastic ones, linen strong clothes instead of shitty polyester ones etc. For an idea to actually help out the ecology, it need to be economically viable before anything else.
Congrats team…looks like a solid piece of quality engineering. Good luck with the next development process.
Beautiful stuff!!
You guys seem to have an amazing product, but no clue about marketing. First, you are going to HAVE to change that name. "Qnetic" has to be one of the worst names I have ever heard. It needs to be easily pronouncable, and even better if it's fun and bubbly to say. Words like "google" or even "bubbly" itself. Definitely don't try to start with a scientific idea "Kinetic" and morph that into something. Even something like "Massive Energy" would be better than "Qnetic" when you look at that it's not obvious how to even say it. Next, dear god hire some actors, you two are no on camera personalities. Main guy you were alright, but the outfits and fact you sat in chairs during presentation....you guys just need people who know what they are doing to handle the public face of this idea. You two are not it. UA-cam is the right idea, but you need cool visuals and youtubers who are passionate about this stuff to be contacted etc. Real life miniature demos with the side cutaway would be cool. A little info about your composite would be nice, I know it's proprietary but what IS it? Is it plastic? Metal? It looks weird in the render.
I question how this is better than nuclear power. Perhaps safer, but for the infrastructure layout the energy density and output of nuclear cannot be beat. This may have some application in remote locations, otherwise it is just a clever toy at this point
Would be fine products about 10 kWh to help with fluctuations, armonics in industries and general buildings
Awesome! 👍🏻
That's quite a low radius for what's possible with that volume of material. You should consider increasing tensile strength of the rotor material which in turn allows for an increase in radius.Velocity and Radius are squared terms in the energy equation, so I would consider optimizing for those to get the most energy density possible.
Useful info. Sadly all too brief. Need many more communications about how the product development is going. Keep up the good work Qnetic, the world is needing you!
How do you compare to the Torus Flywheel, Amber Kinetics or Beacon Power?
Creative Cooper…perhaps you are unaware that Qnetic rotor ‘pods’ are, for aesthetic and utility reasons, to be installed inground and are therefore totally protected from any unlikely function failure. Good luck with your future product development.
Yes, I am aware that the pods are installed underground. Considering the long-term goal of having as many of these installed everywhere, one must account for the effects of a catastrophic failure. The defunct Beacon power from a decade ago had a couple of their flywheels fail catastrophically, due to their high rotor speed and size (google search "beacon power flywheel explosion" for the story). Qnetic proposed flywheels and energy density are atleast 3x to 5x larger than Beacon's, so I really do wonder if the effects of a catastrophic failure can be controlled to a certain degree, especially if these are installed close to residential areas.
what is the risk of explosion though?
There is no kinetic energy in a moving mass there is force Mv squared kinetic energy is the energy of consistent work from a consistent force regards Graham Flowers MEng
The issue I have looking at these kinds of setups, is that a flywheel holds more energy the wider it is. A 300 pound flywheel that's over 60 ft in diameter, will hold far more energy than a 300 pound flywheel that's 60 inches in diameter. However, air friction is a real problem, making it harder to vacuum seal a 60 ft flywheel when compared to a 60 inch one.
What is unique for energy storage comparing to other flywheel techniques?we are working in energy storage market for several years. we are deploying different types of energy storage technology for our renewable power plants.
i think the qnetic's flywheel techniques allow the energy to be in kinetic form instead of chemical form. The flywheel has a big rotor inside, and it has a kind of magnetism bearing and vacuum environment. So the kinetic energy of the rotor will not lose through friction. Besides, the rotor has a maximum speed limitation. The kinetic energy can only be converted into electricity through a motor.
@@simonliu2415 Any commercial installation? how about cost per wh
In my opinion, the flywheel energy storage will cost more than lithium battery installation. But the mechanical energy storage method will be more environmental friendly, and it does not have the degradation problem. With the development of material science. Maybe the installation cost will drop down in the future.@@wujeson3921
B.S.!!!!!!!! Global warming is a scam. Do not fall for any of it.
There is no energy crisis just a consumption crisis
I have a prototype idea for the renewable source of energy future name HYFES hydraulic flywheel energy storage
finally someone understands that this thing must be cheap. i would say even cheaper!
I wouldn't trust these wackos with my lunch money. There's nothing new about flywheel energy storage. There are very good reasons why they're not really being used. They are huge, heavy machines that must be very precisely balanced or the just won't work or worse wobble and explode. The can dump all thier energy at once if the bearing fails. Then the precisely balanced wheel is ruined.
Concur. This would have been novel…a generation ago
@@Mark-sx9rc in some limited situations it might be useful. Say you're in a pulsed power lab, you're in need of a quick burst of energy all at once, but they usually loose their energy to friction . Even the magnetic bearings generate some eddy currents and they interact, so...
Hi @KayakMike1000, thanks for your comments! Correct, flywheels are an ancient technology but it has never been done quite like Qnetic before. Most flywheel energy storage systems are actually quite small, both in capacity (e.g. 32kWh) and physical size (e.g. ~1.3m tall). The other considerations you mention are all perfectly true, we agree with you, but these engineering challenges have already been solved in aero engines, gas turbines and hydro impellers much larger and heavier than Qnetic.
So much of what you said about fossil fuels was wrong. There has been a slight temperature increase over the last 250 years. There has been no increase in severe weather events.
Oh I thought you were Qinetic at first. I hope you have a good legal team
That's Qinetiq. Similar but no…
Excellent how much in Aus dollar's when is it available
There is much better Technology....I do Working on Today.
We are renewable energy developer. what's the better one exactly? we would like to adopt if it was real unique
And in the first few seconds claims a debatable issue as fact.
Too much Koolade.
Join you how!!??? Love flywheels…!!!
wefunder.com/qnetic
How a small investor like 1000 us $ can invest with you, so you can make pool at world stage of like minded stakeholders. What about your financial model and it's certification body.
wefunder.com/qnetic
less than a minute into the video and an inaccurate statement. Wind and solar are not cheaper than coal or gas when all aspects of connecting them to and supplying a grid.There are other costs that are over and above than the so called 'Levelised cost' and the fact that there has to be an equal, reliable and immediately available alternative source of generation at all times. How accurate will the rest of the video be? While inertia is an essential part of generators feeding a grid, which renewables do not have, it's function is as a damper to keep frequency stable. Real frequency support comes from controlling the conventional generators fuel supply. Reserve power can have a place in this particularly where relatively large amounts of input is required which can be pumped hydro or chemical battery. Simple inertia as a source of energy storage can only have a limited duration before frequency falls too low. However good the bearings of an inertial system is, once power is removed it slows down, dependent on the friction and load applied to it. Essentially all the talk of transitioning away from fossil fuel generation is an illusion and will never happen by using renewable generation. It's practical and technical deficiencies make this unworkable.
While flywheels can be used to provide inertial damping, this is not what Qnetic does. The energy discharged from Qnetic passes through an AC-DC/DC-AC power converter so the speed of Qnetic does not affect the frequency of the grid. Anyway, thanks for your comments.
Dt100map, so incurring higher loss, and that the available output falls even faster . This certainly is no answer for a renewable grid as the video title infers.
I wish I had the cash to invest in you guys. Or get a job to help in anyway. I want to see homes and businesses have this. It would be huge!! How can I help living in the Chicago area? I can be head of the home division office located here in the future...I can imagine so many uses for this with EVs and multiple EVs per house hold. Or help push power to mega chargers for semi's/ large supercharger stations.
Hi Corey-loving your enthusiasm! I recommend you visit wefunder.com/qnetic to see a bit more about how you can invest today🤓
This is by far the best energy storage I could ever have thought about. Wish you luck guys !