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@seehearthink
January 26, 2024 at 12:15 pm
Pyramids, anyone?
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 12:47 pm
👽
@brucermarino
January 26, 2024 at 12:23 pm
Wind and solar only cost less because of government subsidies. Is this engineering or politics?
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Compared to combustion-based gas-fired boilers, which are reliant on volatile gas prices, a Rondo Heat Battery powered by wind and/or solar in many markets (without subsidies), are cost competitive or even lower cost than the status quo gas-fired boilers.
@crappymeal
January 26, 2024 at 5:22 pm
Oil and gas is also subsidised
@Smokabowlski
January 26, 2024 at 12:23 pm
It’s a great idea with only about 50% loss. After your switch gear from wind to solar to the natural losses of the heat dissipating the brick. You’re virginia’s biden twenty twenty five
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 12:49 pm
Our commercially operating system has achieved 90%+ efficiency since it was commissioned in March 2023. Our dynamic insulation recaptures heat before it is lost to the environment in a layer of brick and air insulation (like a double pane window), and recycles that air through the system. We’ve proven this works and have achieved 90% efficiency and expect future, larger systems to reach 98% efficiency.
@aphaileeja
January 26, 2024 at 12:26 pm
I was just thinking last year: “All geodes are rocks but not all rocks are geodes” Can someone please simulate reverse geode and see if they calculated at some point? It’s gonna be like a brain TV that charges itself watch lol
Ps. This video’s idea is so so, I’d cover the outside wall with a peltier film and run the electricity to an indoor hanging lobsterponic garden
@vovaturchak
January 26, 2024 at 12:28 pm
Nuclear power is one and only powerful, clean, cheap, easy to build and use source of energy that can be scaled anywhere. We only should think how to improve it’s safety, so we wouldn’t have another Chernobyl. Everything else is inefficient and waste of time, money and resources.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 12:46 pm
The challenge with nuclear for Rondo customers is — they need a 24/7 supply of heat right in the middle of their facility. Pumping heat from a nuclear plant over large distances to a separate industrial facility (chemical plant, tomato processing plant, baby food manufacturer, etc), would result in significant losses. Nuclear generation requires a ton of space, so they cannot be built at the heart of industrial facilities where heat is required. And as you point out, a chemical or pharmaceutical or food producer will be uncomfortable with a nuclear plant sitting nearby their site due to safety concerns. Downtime is expensive and the risk of downtime due to safety concerns is a risk they can avoid using safer, cheaper, more reliable generation. Rondo uses bricks and wire, no moving parts, inert and safe. Perfect for a factory environment.
@kocerarif
January 26, 2024 at 5:05 pm
I completely agree with you about nuclear energy but offgrid energy storage of anykind is a big problem that needs addressing. I’m an offgridder for more than 30 years and innovative solutions has helped me increase my living standards and decrease carbon emissions to a considerable degree.
@neotoy
January 26, 2024 at 12:53 pm
“it’s a common industrialist fallacy to say ‘we need the stuff we make’, it’s more accurate to say that in order to maintain our current standard of living we need to keep making stuff. But the better statement is “we need to fully understand the consequences of our industrial practices in relation to our actual needs and the needs of the larger ecosystem.” Certain things shouldn’t be made or maintained, and this is fact that humanity has neglected to investigate for far too long.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 12:57 pm
We hope that some of the things we help industrials make aren’t just luxuries, rather, necessities. Eliminating gas-fired boilers for tomato plants, drug manufacturers, baby food factories, textile plants. People need food, medicine, and clothing, basic needs. We hope to lower the cost of those goods, eliminate combustion-based emissions at those factories, improving worker and community health.
@crappymeal
January 26, 2024 at 5:08 pm
You are correct and aswell as energy and resource waste the manufacture of non important stuff is a waste of human resources/effort/manpower that could be better put to use
@KWifler
January 26, 2024 at 6:33 pm
We become dependent upon the stuff we make because we forget how to live without it.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 12:58 pm
Thank you to everyone at TED for hosting John! We’re excited to rapidly eliminate emissions at unprecedented scale and speed.
@vivalaleta
January 26, 2024 at 1:11 pm
What a lot of naysayers in the comment section. We’ll never invent or improve anything according to that lot.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 1:27 pm
Luckily our customers a believers that we WILL lower their costs and slash their emissions! Our commercial system is operating daily at 90%+ efficiency.
@toolthoughts
January 26, 2024 at 1:21 pm
you know when it relies on wind and solar it’s going to be nonsense
so the genius idea is to add more energy conversion steps, which means you’ll get massive losses?
what we need are consumer products that last decades and are repairable, and an economic system that is based on value instead of debt
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 1:26 pm
We have proven the ability to deliver heat to customers at 90%+ efficiency AND at lower cost than their existing gas-fired boilers. Higher efficiency than boilers, lower cost than boilers, zero emissions… Not just carbon, but short term air pollutants like NOx, SOx, and fine particulate matter that cause respiratory disease, heart conditions, and prenatal issues with women. You don’t support improved community health? You want higher cost of production and thus higher cost of goods?
@crappymeal
January 26, 2024 at 5:18 pm
If you are interested in a new system look up digital democracy / e-democracy
@RmnGnzlz
January 26, 2024 at 1:24 pm
This has been debunked many times already.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 2:55 pm
This comment has been debunked by our fact checkers. The Rondo Heat Battery is in operation today and has proven to deliver heat at over 90% efficiency at lower cost than gas-fired heat.
@lily_neira
January 26, 2024 at 1:28 pm
What a genius !! He s like Einstain , he just solved the Global warming !! That means the climate is going to stop destroying the planet , if only the governments listened to him !!!
@EyesOfByes
January 26, 2024 at 1:32 pm
There is hope in the galaxy
@NajillaHafizi-vs8sm
January 26, 2024 at 1:56 pm
Please upload the dr naqibullah Zaki lecture
@CreasedDickies
January 26, 2024 at 2:19 pm
If bricks can be batteries, wtf were the pyramids?
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 2:54 pm
👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽
@crappymeal
January 26, 2024 at 5:28 pm
Egotistical tombs
@user-ye2ok5qx5r
January 26, 2024 at 2:41 pm
Wow, what a simple but genius idea! How can we use them in heating system of our homes?
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 2:54 pm
There are a few companies working on residential sized heat batteries. I believe there are even some for sale! We’re focused on creating batteries purpose-built for the largest emitters on earth. This will allow us to make the largest difference possible, as fast as we can!
@crappymeal
January 26, 2024 at 5:13 pm
Search: undecided with matt ferrell
@peterweller8583
January 26, 2024 at 3:04 pm
Kudos to whoever thought this one up.
It should realize every boy’s dream of a beautiful tomorrow.
Safe and resilient.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 3:20 pm
Safe, low cost, resilient!
@grndkntrl
January 26, 2024 at 3:59 pm
> It should realize everybody’s dream of a beautiful tomorrow.
FTFY.
@superstarnidzy
January 26, 2024 at 3:39 pm
For as long as big businesses exist, this is going to NOT exist.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 4:16 pm
We exist today, and are are currently commercially operating (successfully) the world’s most efficient energy storage system of any kind, the highest temperature energy storage of any kind, and are lowering the cost of heat generation at a California Ethanol plant. Check out our Calgren Renewable Fuels case study =]
@crappymeal
January 26, 2024 at 5:20 pm
It makes economical sense so it or a better version or alternative will likely get adopted.
If you don’t like the current system look up: digital democracy / e-democracy
@billbucktube
January 26, 2024 at 3:40 pm
It is great to offer good ideas via cost savings…
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 4:12 pm
We agree!
@josephcarreon783
January 26, 2024 at 3:44 pm
What is the name of the company?
@jessecortez9449
January 26, 2024 at 3:58 pm
Appears to be Rondo Energy. They’re in the comments sections replying to some comments.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 4:12 pm
Hi hi! Rondo Energy here.
@josephcarreon783
January 26, 2024 at 7:29 pm
Thank you
@IronMongoose1
January 26, 2024 at 4:27 pm
John, you and your friends have made some good choices in how you spend your life, and it will make a big difference to my kids’s ability to have a safe and healthy life 40 years from now.
Virtual hug from British Columbia to you.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 4:28 pm
Hugs straight back to you, friend!
@sachamm
January 26, 2024 at 4:49 pm
This seems like a great idea, but the presentation came off like a Dragon’s Den pitch.
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 5:07 pm
We’re very real — in commercial operation today and scaling fast!
@Kadersarihan
January 26, 2024 at 4:57 pm
👏
@serta5727
January 26, 2024 at 5:25 pm
Actually genius simple
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 5:33 pm
YES, that’s the best way to go big and go fast!
@Go2Results
January 26, 2024 at 6:06 pm
Nice, but what about heat loss percentages? Because heating stuff is one, the most challenging is keeping it hot as fire… 🔥
@rondoenergy4228
January 26, 2024 at 6:12 pm
I mentioned this in another comment — but we use dynamic insulation that works like a double pane window. We use another layer of brick surrounded by a blanket of air. Heat is lost to the air that is pumped back through the bricks before being delivered as heat or steam to the customer. There is almost no loss to the environment, with our current (small) system reaching 90% efficiency and larger units expected to reach 98%. In fact, the outside of our batteries are cool to the touch.
@Go2Results
January 26, 2024 at 6:21 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 thx 🙏 what do you think about your system for public swimming pools? ( in The Netherlands) A German company for waste heat is only looking for real big systems… as swimming pools need heat all year around this looks like an interesting case for heat batteries as electricity is most cheap on weekend days.. Tino
@edgar_nistor
January 26, 2024 at 7:34 pm
and a LOOOT of bricks 🙂 the wall will be more great now.
@rashidabaakza8554
January 27, 2024 at 3:10 am
Very interesting concept 👍🧱⚡️
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 3:42 am
Thank you!
@AAristi1976
January 27, 2024 at 3:34 am
So, what is the company behind this? Do they have a website? Can we invest in it? Where is it being installed?
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 3:42 am
Rondo Energy! Check us out. Privately held company. We have a commercial system in daily operation in California at a renewable fuel plant. The case study is on our website. The system is the highest efficiency energy storage of any kind (90%+).
@rcmnet
January 27, 2024 at 2:06 pm
@@rondoenergy4228how does it compare with natural gas solutions cost wise for daily operation?
@mariaantoniettamontella9173
January 27, 2024 at 4:35 am
meraviglioso
@jorislal
January 27, 2024 at 5:12 am
At first I thought he’s going to talk about that stacking bricks battery idea and was super skeptical about it. This sounds a lot better, would like to know efficiency and cost numbers versus a chemical battery and pump storage battery.
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:44 am
We’re about 5-10x cheaper than a lithium ion battery for the same amount of energy stored. Also no precious metals / rare earth metals! Abundant, low-cost materials.
@roryniland
January 27, 2024 at 5:22 am
whats the efficiency ??
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:44 am
The small commercial unit we have online today, proven in the field, is achieving 90%+ efficiency. It’s the highest efficiency energy storage system in commercial operation in the world today. We expect larger systems to reach 98% efficiency!
@roryniland
January 27, 2024 at 6:03 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 Now THAT is interesting, the number should be in the title not in the comments, we can all heat stuff
@tmpbe
January 27, 2024 at 5:47 am
That was really interesting, thanks a lot, John
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:43 am
I’ll let him know, thanks!
@kaushalsuvarna5156
January 27, 2024 at 5:47 am
I had to double check that this wasn’t the Onion
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:43 am
I had to double check that you weren’t an onion.
@user-jm1ww1wt9u
January 27, 2024 at 6:26 am
와… 참신한 발상이다.
다른 모든 과학자, 엔지니어가 좀 더 저렴한 ESS를 개발하기 위해서 연구할 때
가장 흔히 볼 수 있는 브릭으로 열 에너지를 저장한다.
이런 게 진정한 혁신인가?
@Spathever
January 27, 2024 at 8:15 am
Boring? I haven’t been this excited since I heard about a sand heat battery for district heating here in Finland!
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:43 am
Yes, we love what those folks are doing! We think our solution is more suitable for a factory/industrial environment, but yes their sand battery is pretty cool and will have its uses!
@RickySupriyadi
January 27, 2024 at 8:57 am
for some reason i felt so sleepy during this short lecture
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:42 am
🛌
@RickySupriyadi
January 27, 2024 at 6:24 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 I’m subscribed 👍
@kerry9125
January 27, 2024 at 9:04 am
Please explain the needs for the brick form. If you are just transferring radiant heat, why are you worried about the brick cracking? Wouldn’t a container filled with sand (or dirt) work similarly and be cheaper to produce?
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:41 am
If brick doesn’t heat up uniformly, there is risk of it cracking. So the strange shape of the brick is to ensure the electric heating wire is heating all points of the brick evenly and at the same time. The shape is so the thickness of the brick is similar at most points, and so that air can easily travel through them to extract the heat evenly as well.
Sand cannot achieve the high temperatures required by industry (up to 1500). I forget off the top of my head, but I believe sand can only reach something like 300-400 degrees before it turns into glass.
@taylorjohnson4943
January 27, 2024 at 9:32 am
Adding a co2 capture unit on the backend of the heated air cycle. Could make a lot of sense.
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:40 am
There is no CO2 that comes out of the Rondo unit, and no CO2 involved at any point in the cycle. The system is entirely powered by renewable electricity, and at no point is there combustion or CO2.
@Romewasnotbuilt_inaday
January 27, 2024 at 9:32 am
Ted is a nice English training materials!!
My channel handle short English passages, typically less than a minute, and practice shadowing.
Please feel free to make use of it.
Let’s work together to become fluent in English !!
@herolais781
January 27, 2024 at 9:45 am
May the old dinosaur headed capital holders won’t stand in the way of decarbonization.
@mattb5733
January 27, 2024 at 9:45 am
Everyone seems to be forgetting that concrete production is one of the worst carbon emission industrial processes. A quick google search says that concrete production alone causes about 8% of all the worlds carbon emissions.
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:39 am
Cement/concrete production and brick production are different. That said, yes there is a massive opportunity for heat batteries to decarbonize cement production AND decarbonize its own brick production. Rondo systems recover the lifecycle carbon used to create them in only a few weeks of operating.
@kerry9125
January 27, 2024 at 10:07 am
For how long can this brick battery store energy?
What is it’s storage capacity, and at what rate does it dissipate heat energy?
For how long does maintain ‘90% efficiency’?
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:37 am
While the battery can store energy for around a day, the primary use for the battery is 24/7 heat for our customers. These are for facilities that consume a massive amount of power, and in some cases only shut down for a few hours per year. They are purchasing continuous 24/7 heat — the same heat they currently generate using combustion-based, emissions-intensive, gas fired boilers that run 24/7. This is an “always-on” type technology, not back-up power.
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 11:38 am
The Rondo website has a data sheet you can look through, but the two modular systems are 100MWh storage and 300MWh storage.
@kerry9125
January 27, 2024 at 1:29 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 I see limited applications for this kind of energy storage (battery), here’s why…
At 90% efficiency, the customer immediately loses 10% off all the energy he put into the battery. That stored energy in the battery is in the form of heat which starts dissipating immediately. If he doesn’t use that stored energy in one day, a large portion of it, or possibly the entire usable amount of it, is gone. So, he has to continually recharge this battery, perhaps every other day, at a minimum 10% loss every time.
Basically, storing heat is not an efficient way to store energy over time. The only place where this would work would be remote areas that rely on wind/solar and don’t have a grid for backup. I don’t know if there are many places like that that couldn’t use fuel or lithium powered back-up generators more efficiently.
@kerry9125
January 27, 2024 at 1:32 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 To download the data sheet from your website requires providing a lot of personal information, which I find unnecessary and would just rather not do.
@RickLaBanca
January 27, 2024 at 12:02 pm
I don’t get how that brick fits in my phone.
@DaveBuildsThings
January 27, 2024 at 5:57 pm
Update your phone and brick it. Problem solved.
@deekayunited3445
January 27, 2024 at 1:46 pm
So its a storage heater. My house was built 30 years ago with storage heaters. They work. Theyre easy to fit. They need no maintenance and are quiet. And these days theyre charged by enormous wind turbines in the North Sea.
@kerry9125
January 27, 2024 at 2:02 pm
This probably has very few practical applications because the heat energy will dissipate out too quickly, before it can be used.
It doesn’t seem cost effective to store energy this way unless you are going to use it very quickly.
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Our technology can eliminate gas-fired boilers in 95% of industrial processes. These processes account for ~22% of global CO2 emissions. According to Tesla’s master plan part 3, this is a 3.2 trillion dollar market for heat batteries.
@kerry9125
January 27, 2024 at 3:53 pm
For an energy storage system, too much heat energy will be lost too quickly to make these blocks cost effective in most applications.
For immediate energy, just converting from a gas fired boiler system which generally exceeds 80% efficiency, to an electric fired boiler system, generally achieves 90+% efficiency. What do these blocks do that the latter system can’t?
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 4:02 pm
Wind doesn’t blow all the time and solar doesn’t generate electricity electricity at night. These bricks deliver power 24/7 and charge / discharge simultaneously, charging in only 4-6 hours when electricity prices are cheap (or even negative) to deliver power 24/7. Compare this to burning (volatile priced + dirty) gas 24/7 and you save a significant amount of money, and improve local air quality for your workers and the broader community.
Our customers use this heat the same way they use their current gas-fired heat – and we deliver heat at 90%+ efficient, so the heat is delivered to (and paid for by) the customer as a replacement for their gas fired heat. It is false to say “it dissipates too quickly” and we have proven this in the field already in a commercial unit.
@spezzington
January 27, 2024 at 2:49 pm
It doesn’t matter. Why? Because climate is an industry not a science. Decades ago scientists discovered that our climate would change and capitalism took over. But scientists didn’t discover mad-made climate change, they discovered a 12 thousand year cycle. And now it’s time.
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 4:13 pm
Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, have significantly increased CO2 levels since the Industrial Revolution, contributing to climate change. We experience the symptoms of this every single day (and they’re worsening) as measured by a distinct rise in global temperatures, ocean acidification, and extreme weather events, impacting ecosystems, economies, and human health. While natural factors like orbital changes do influence Earth’s climate, the current rapid warming aligns with increased greenhouse gases from human activities, not natural cycles. Addressing climate change is crucial to mitigate these impacts, and critical for a more equitable world where access to clean reliable energy is a basic human right.
@IamKhoramdin
January 27, 2024 at 3:19 pm
Wow it is amazing❤
@rondoenergy4228
January 27, 2024 at 4:11 pm
Thank you!!
@jlewis7678
January 27, 2024 at 5:50 pm
Nice video but I wish it was longer and went into more detail about some of the issues with using heat batteries at scale. One question I have is what about power for locations not ideal for wind and solar? If wind and solar are not available due to geographical reasons you will have to generate heat with oil or natural gas. Also, the main cost of electricity comes from peak voltage utilization, are these heat batteries able to generate high voltage quickly? They would have too if you plan to use them for industrial work. I’m an engineer and I recently designed an industrial dryer that, if it was power by solar, would require a solar field the size of a city due to its peak voltage needs. Would love if this technology works at scale but I am still skeptical.
@yodad4776
January 27, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Your kissing it ..keep it super simple
@amelghrici3408
January 27, 2024 at 7:34 pm
SOS Gaza children and babies died no food no water many poeple die.poeple of USA stop this War please please
@jamesalanstephensmith7930
January 27, 2024 at 7:52 pm
Amen!
@jimj2683
January 28, 2024 at 5:56 am
Another company sales pitch disguised as a profound TED speech.
@WizCreates
January 28, 2024 at 6:10 am
What if a heat battery was used to power a ICE car?
@Andrew-rc3vh
January 28, 2024 at 7:05 am
Just use sand. It does not crack up and is even cheaper.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:18 pm
Sand absolutely has its uses! We love what those folks are doing. However, sand turns to glass at high temperatures. Many industrial processes are simply too hot for sand, and that’s where we have the advantage. We think we’re also at an advantage at low temperatures too =]
@Drewsta4
January 28, 2024 at 8:02 am
Wouldn’t it take energy to maintain high temperature limiting energy storage time so only short term storage be efficient enough to be viable?
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:17 pm
We charge and discharge simultaneously, charging for 4-6 hours per day to enable us to export heat 24/7 to customers. This has been proven in the field already. We’re commercially operating the highest efficiency energy storage system of any kind in the world today at 90% with Calgren Renewable Fuels. Our case study is online.
@steveb2400
January 28, 2024 at 8:02 am
Absolutely brilliant. I’m speechless and excited for the future…something I haven’t felt in a long time!
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:16 pm
Awesome!
@tvm73836
January 28, 2024 at 8:33 am
So light on details and sounded like motherhood and Apple-pie statements. I’m saying the company is that way is but just the way he presented. There are too many charlatans in the ESG space and it’s important to rise above the riff raffs.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:16 pm
We’re currently operating the highest temperature energy storage system of any kind in commercial operation at 90%+ efficiency. With TED, it’s important we capture a human narrative and is not a sales pitch. I recommend you check out our case study with Calgren Renewable Fuels.
@Fitzrovialitter
January 28, 2024 at 9:09 am
When a title asks a rhetorical question the answer is invariably “no”; so I won’t bother proceeding.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:15 pm
The answer is YES. We’re a drop-in replacement for gas-fired boilers. Not just rhetoric, we’re commercially operating the highest efficiency energy storage system of any kind in the world today at 90%+ efficiency. This is with Calgren Renewable Fuels and our case study is online. This is very real.
@backacheache
January 28, 2024 at 9:15 am
I wonder if they could start the Charging with a heat pump so they end up with a “cold” battery (they have pumped the heat out of) that they could send to data-centres, ice-rinks and cold storage facilities
@Danny_6Handford
January 28, 2024 at 9:26 am
Heat batteries are amazing and I am sure there can be some applications and situations where producing heat from electricity generated from wind and solar may be cost effective and practical but, I think there are much better more practical and more cost effective ways to produce clean heat than using electricity from wind and solar.
@m2-x-n253
January 28, 2024 at 9:45 am
Bricks do tend to get hot real quick nd last long,but so does others, then again, that design is very efficient…i like it, i hope it gets popular fast like ELON MUSK TESLA.
@colin1235421
January 28, 2024 at 10:16 am
Great to see this is already being implemented. Even though one loses efficiency, perfect efficiency is not the goal – CO2 reduction is.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:14 pm
We’re actually currently operating the highest efficiency commercial energy storage system of any kind with Calgren Renewable Fuels. This system operates at 90% efficiency, and we expect larger systems to reach 98% efficiency.
@annnonomys3132
January 28, 2024 at 11:36 am
Brevity? Relevant summation of the entire first four minutes: Industry uses massive amounts of heat to manufacture almost everything.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:13 pm
Bottom line — industry uses massive amounts of heat. This is responsible for ~22% of world CO2. Wind and solar is not suitable because it cannot be stored. Until now. Heat batteries store intermittent electricity to deliver high-temperature heat 24/7 to industrial processes, serving as a drop-in replacement for gas-fired boilers that are dirty and expensive. Low-cost, zero-carbon, industrial heat and power.
@mgcarmkm4520
January 28, 2024 at 12:21 pm
Planned obselence will negate any gains made through electrification as manufacturers have to keep selling new products to stay in business.Also wind and solar come out of the ground at source , basically oil. And wind and solar are of no use in regards to baseload energy production.
@karhukivi
January 28, 2024 at 12:47 pm
Heat cannot be “stored”, first law of thermodynamics. Even a thermos flask of hot liquid will cool down. Far better to use the excess electricity production in pumped storage (potential energy) or to produce hydrogen and oxygen (chemical energy) from water for later use in fuel cells.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:11 pm
Hi there. The issue is that heavy industrials need HEAT, not electricity. And they need that heat onsite right where they have a demand for heat. Yes you can make hydrogen, but using excess electricity to create hydrogen just to burn it for industrial heat is low efficiency and high cost. Green H2 is twice the cost of electric thermal energy storage and half the efficiency due to conversion losses.
@jacktheripper-hp9tx
January 28, 2024 at 1:12 pm
my sock will be the next great battery you just have to put it into a shoe and its like a gift that keeps on giving
@skyler114
January 28, 2024 at 1:43 pm
But when people put a bitcoin miner in place of a heating element all of a sudden its bad for the environment and wasting energy.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:10 pm
We’re delivering high temperature heat to heavy industrials that require it 24/7 and currently burn dirty and expensive gas to do so. This is much higher temperature than waste heat created by bitcoin mining.
@Patiboke
January 28, 2024 at 2:03 pm
Great voice, great presentation. 👍 The planet needs more people like this.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Thank you so much! Yes, we agree =]
@Gonegonegone977
January 28, 2024 at 2:33 pm
Incredible. Thx
@thumperoux1528
January 28, 2024 at 2:54 pm
Thermodynamics 101 – entropy trap. Cheap and easily scalable yeah but at least chemical electric batteries and electric charge “batteries” (super/ultra-capacitors) store energy potential with less wasted and unusable lost energy. Inefficiencies in converting high grade “industrial” heat to do other “work” useful for certain uses and heating in Nordic countries, but, won’t recharge your EV efficiently during grid outages or offer utility grid resilience during emergencies. Stop calling them “batteries” – just heat storage.
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Hi there, our benefit is we charge and discharge simultaneously, and deliver heat 24/7 to our customers. Our product is not designed to charge your EVs, and it’s not designed as backup power. This is a drop-in replacement for gas-fired boilers that burn gas 24/7 to provide heat to heavy industrials. Around 22% of global CO2 is industrial heat. This is a major opportunity for heat batteries, Tesla (who currently does not make heat batteries) released in their Master Plan Pt. 3 report that the world will need 2x the amount of heat battery storage vs. grid battery storage. So, the world has a greater need for industrial heat batteries than it does for grid batteries. This also lowers the cost of production for industrials, and eliminates carbon. It also gets them a clean reliable supply of domestic fuel instead of relying on the volatile cost roller coaster of imported fossil fuels.
@stefanplugaru6388
January 28, 2024 at 3:18 pm
Throughout the whole talk, it was not mentioned once what are the efficiency levels of this idea. Convenient, right?
@rondoenergy4228
January 28, 2024 at 4:05 pm
Our pilot in commercial operation (you can look up Calgren Renewable Fuels case study) is operating at above 90% efficiency and we expect larger systems to reach 98%. Our system in daily operation today is the highest efficiency energy storage of any kind in the world in commercial operation.
@elizabethscott2826
January 28, 2024 at 3:55 pm
Great Voice & Content Speech, Sir. Thank you 🙂✝️
@Taras.Havryliuk
January 28, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Where Can I read more about it?
@aloysiushettiarachchi4523
January 28, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Use more electrically operated things means more transformers ac power line which generate EM waves that kills everybody slowly. Small organism are the most vulnerable. The fireflies already vanished, bees are being eliminated. The sperms in male bodies are being reduce in numbers (in sperm count). Hence low birth rates.
Look around, most industrialised the fastest aging population. Yes, go on using 5g, 6g etc. etc. They bring profits to big companies, but slowly eliminating mankind.
@flotsamike
January 28, 2024 at 7:20 pm
The last 2 years I lived in England I had an electric heater that used ceramic bricks to store heat and it used more electricity than my baseboard heaters.
For most of the world the price of electricity has doubled in the last 10 years, so power costs are not dropping. Even woth cheap renewables we get hammered every evening and whenever we hit a mew peak dand, which is more and more often. This just shifts peak demand into peak use time more often. We need energy storage, but not this kind so much.
@amey409
January 28, 2024 at 7:24 pm
never saw Joe talk this coherently before! Good for you, Joe 👍
@eugenethaden6316
January 28, 2024 at 8:54 pm
Carbon Dioxide is NOT a pollutant, it is a plant food. Listen to Patrick Moore’s talk on this for more. We are also mostly carbon, is that why they want to reduce the world population? Worldwide about 17 million people have died at a rate more than we would expect and it all started in 2022, can you think of what was rolled out in 2022 or 2021? I’ll give you three guesses!
@garysmith5025
January 29, 2024 at 9:42 am
You’re going to have to tell us, I’m sure it will be fascinating.
@nc3826
January 28, 2024 at 9:54 pm
There’s always a more efficient way of using electricity…. Then inefficiently converting and storing it as heat… For example heat pumps…. Please show those promoting this concept the second law of thermodynamics and Carnot’s Theorem…
@rondoenergy4228
January 29, 2024 at 3:06 am
Hi there, heat pumps cannot achieve the high temperatures many industrial processes need, and they also require 24/7 power to operate. Our systems charge and discharge simultaneously, and only need to charge for 4-6 hours per day in order to deliver 24/7 power. This 4-6 hours can be in the lowest-cost window of the day. Heat pumps are great, but they are not suitable for many industrial processes.
@nc3826
January 29, 2024 at 6:21 am
@@rondoenergy4228 The problem with heat storage is that a requires very cheap off-peak electric. And we have a growing list of processes and devices that will need that electricity, such as electric vehicles to green steel using electricity. So based on supply and demand I just don’t see those very cheap off peak rates existing consistently in the future.
Plus all the efficiency losses. Industrial process heat batteries still seem tentative at best? At least for the long term. And the heat pump was just an example. It was not the basis of my premise.
I don’t have a crystal ball, so good luck proving my doubts to be unwarranted.
@dodgygoose3054
January 28, 2024 at 11:17 pm
I’ve been following Rondo for a number of years it’s brilliant to see them at this point and now to go bigger & bigger with their boring technology that will be the boring back bone of our todays & tomorrows industrial world.
@rondoenergy4228
January 29, 2024 at 3:03 am
Thanks for joining us on our journey! I hope we continue to be boring for years to come!
@jamesjohn834
January 29, 2024 at 1:51 am
Video infers that a container the size of a van can power a huge manufacturing plant. This guy is a clown. TED is just a bunch of silly people being watched by sheeple. Glad I took the time to confirm this.
@rondoenergy4228
January 29, 2024 at 3:03 am
Hi James, you can find our data sheet on the website. The systems are much larger than a van, and often you need multiple of them to power an individual plant. Our smallest system (RHB100) is 15 (l) x 12 (w) x 12 (h) m. Our larger system (RHB300) is 40 (l) x 15 (w) x 12 (h) m. Please note we have a system in daily commercial operation delivering heat to a customer. It is the highest efficiency energy storage of any kind in commercial operation. This is very real, and very operational.
@Picci25021973
January 29, 2024 at 3:04 am
Renewable energies disruption is coming… fast! Fossil fuels’ years are numbered.
@rodneyallwood1394
January 29, 2024 at 4:08 am
co2 is not the problem.
@bigmock141
January 29, 2024 at 4:09 am
China already have that but it’s fake
@SolarScootersuk
January 29, 2024 at 4:47 am
Simply amazing. Love this!
@petersaulnier3526
January 29, 2024 at 5:12 am
at the end of the presentation John says “with your help” i hope he means investors help,, fine.. and rather not yet voters help. it would be good for the private sector to try this out in large scale first, to take the risk and see many details worked out.
@GoodLife-ru8di
January 29, 2024 at 5:26 am
Why wait 15 years? Liquid metal battery developed at MIT is already in production.
@dogbreath6974
January 29, 2024 at 6:10 am
This is nothing new, my brother had night storage heaters in his home over 40 years ago, they had bricks inside them that were heated through the night on economy 7 (low rate electricity) and gave out heat throughout the day, the only drawback was you couldn’t switch them off like a gas boiler.
@jameslowellblakenship2192
January 29, 2024 at 6:32 am
We’ve had free energy for over a hundred years. The difference is greed and knowledge. Wtf.
@man_at_the_end_of_time
January 29, 2024 at 7:47 am
I want more CO2 to green the planet. But fear not the population will drop per the coming WW3. The wind and solar are BS, the numbers are lies per our elitez.
@MatisseRAdar
January 29, 2024 at 9:33 am
Half As Interesting HAI video coming?
@totszwai
January 29, 2024 at 9:50 am
Sounds great… BUT, I believe you could only use this battery if the need of your output is HEAT only? Also, how well does this work in cold climate and in winter? I guess this would be a industrial ONLY solution?
@Factory400
January 29, 2024 at 10:03 am
A complicated concept presented as if it was simple.
It would be more exciting to see an actual, practical system. From there, efficiency can be estimated. Lifecycle can be estimated. Maintenance can be estimated.
@gnkstudios6138
January 29, 2024 at 10:23 am
Sees the thumbnail:
“Why on Gods green earth is Joe Biden on Ted Talk?”
Reads the title:
“I was about to say”
😂😂😂
@tedhamilton2362
January 29, 2024 at 10:23 am
What energy will be required to create the bricks?
@nononsenseBennett
January 29, 2024 at 10:31 am
How about storing cold too? We need air conditioning and cold to preserve food. This is another huge energy user. In areas where snow is prevalent, collecting and storing it could be utilized for cold energy needs. This would have the side benefit of having captured water when needed. Win-win.
@PyroEvil
January 29, 2024 at 10:36 am
Perfect to use heat to heat something later. But not efficient to use this heat for moving something like for a steam turbine. Any thermal engine have a efficiency of 60% maximum in theory ( carnot laws ) with super perfect conditions , 45-50% is achived in real world. Just look the effiency of a diesel car and electric car today. One liter of diesel contain 10-11kwh of energy total , enough to make 50km easy with a electric car ( 18-20kwh/100km ) but only 20-25km with a diesel car. No complicated mathematics and physics , just real world facts that peoples can test themselve. And battery technology is just at it’s beginning. Each technology have it’s places and can’t cover everythings.
@Retly_Ai
January 29, 2024 at 1:50 pm
Wow an actual topic about science? There is still hope for TED
@themogget8808
January 29, 2024 at 3:15 pm
I would love to see these take off as a drop-in replacement for industrial gas-fired steam boilers.
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:28 pm
Same!
@7_of_9
January 29, 2024 at 3:31 pm
Go deep, geothermal is basically free heat. Go 2 miles deep and you can heat up a small town. Because heat risers it only requires a very small pump to move these heat.
That solves the heating homes, commercial buildings etc…
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:28 pm
Geothermal is very expensive and seismic conditions make this unsafe and impractical to be installed at the heart of a factory, where heat is needed.
@wadehathawaymusic
January 29, 2024 at 3:35 pm
Hmm… first hit to credibilty was ‘we *need* the stuff we make’. Renewables will not save the current system. We need to deal with the reality that while the universe may be infinite, our little planet is not.
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:27 pm
We need food, medicine, clothing. We need cement and steel to build homes, keeping us warm.
@danpowell3953
January 29, 2024 at 6:04 pm
Ironically, when an electric battery dies, it is also called a brick…
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:26 pm
😆
@bernob9770
January 29, 2024 at 8:48 pm
Very cool!
@BandiMuraliKrishna
January 29, 2024 at 9:36 pm
In the forge of progress, where carbon clouds did loom,
John O’Donnell emerged, dispelling industry’s gloom.
Bricks and wire danced, a green alchemy unbowed,
His heat battery sparked a future, emissions disallowed.
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Nice!
@inserteunnombreapropiado9079
January 29, 2024 at 10:54 pm
I wonder: is it possible for whole city to just use these brick batteries to store energy in case of need?
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:25 pm
Yes it’s possible!
@kennethtape3362
January 30, 2024 at 12:01 am
What a absolutely elegant idea, fantastic, I had no idea !
@user-nb5sr7by6y
January 30, 2024 at 12:25 am
Sand, brick, salt, and lithium (+ Li mixes) are the battery hierarchy.
Cash in, after building up your knowledge capital.
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:25 pm
Sand is restricted by temperature, when it gets too hot, it turns to glass. It cannot reach high enough temperatures to be suitable for many industrial processes, including cement and steel production. This is where brick has a significant advantage. It can cover nearly 100% of all temperatures required by industry.
@MENDNZ
January 30, 2024 at 1:18 am
What about all the heating furnaces in most US, Canadian and European homes burning fossil fuels all winter ???? Entitled wealthy people don’t care.
@MENDNZ
January 30, 2024 at 1:20 am
How do you stop wealthy entitled people buying and wanting new things when they already have enough?
@parangal
January 30, 2024 at 1:21 am
Would you open such a facility in croatia. We have the fastest ev car in the world. We have many sunny days and strong winds. That would be great. Making this bricks with renewable energy.
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:23 pm
We can drop in wherever industrial customers require heat!
@WhatDadIsUpTo
January 30, 2024 at 1:55 am
I store energy from my solar PV as well as VAWTs using an “Air Battery”.
My toys compress air and I save that air at working pressure (for me 80 to 120 psig) to generate FUTURE electricity needs of any voltage and any current, both a/c and d/c.
@rajendraprasadkudiyal2347
January 30, 2024 at 2:54 am
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@ape72patch1
January 30, 2024 at 3:38 am
So if the world did this wouldn’t it increase global heating ?
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:23 pm
No, our heat is used by customers in the same way they use gas-fired boilers today. The reason those boilers heat the globe is due to the CO2 they emit. We replace that carbon-intensive heat with clean heat (that is combustion free and eliminates other pollutants like NOx and SOx that cause human health issues).
@ape72patch1
January 30, 2024 at 3:28 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 thanks for answering!
@neiljohnson9686
January 30, 2024 at 7:22 am
Booooooooooooooooooooi
@steveinglis473
January 30, 2024 at 9:18 am
Been around in homes for decades – called storage heaters.
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:22 pm
The steel industry has also used bricks to pre-heat air for almost 200 years! The same type of bricks we’re using, just a different shape.
@derweibhai
January 30, 2024 at 11:35 am
Global carbon emissions regulation are the biggest scam in history.
@invisibilianone6288
January 30, 2024 at 11:58 am
Energy IN, needs to be adequate enough…. to maintain core temp.
The amount of wind and solar needed, just to maintain the core, would take a lot of space, just for the generators, wind/solar, , , not to mention the materials to build, maintain, and eventually replace those units.
What one needs to design is self-heating bricks….lol😁😂
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 3:21 pm
Hi there, the beauty of our technology is that it’s a swiss army knife. It also charges and discharges simultaneously, needed 4-6 hours of charging in order to discharge 24/7. That 4-6 hours can be anytime, even split up into an hour here, an hour there. Our current commercial system has proven this in the field, delivering 24/7 heat from time-matched charging on a solar curve. The systems can also be on-grid or off-grid, so heat batteries can charge during hours where solar is low-cost or even negatively priced (when it would otherwise be curtailed). The systems are designed to last 40+ years and the engineering team’s target is 100 years. Simple to build and maintain, and we use no rare metals.
@invisibilianone6288
January 30, 2024 at 3:36 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 I understand the concept, but it’s going to be like trying to drive an EV, in subzero weather.
@invisibilianone6288
January 30, 2024 at 8:23 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 I am not against the idea. Research will eventually result in a good outcome… We hope😎☕
@invisibilianone6288
January 30, 2024 at 8:30 pm
@@rondoenergy4228 you state numbers,, “4 to 6 hours to charge”… At what rate?
From what size charging source?
.
It’s pertinent, to have verifiable figures on how much ‘IN’, and how much ‘OUT’,,, as well as from what energy collector/source and how many homes, can be supplied power, for how long.
@rondoenergy4228
January 30, 2024 at 8:58 pm
@@invisibilianone6288 All of this (rate, size) is available via the data sheet on our website. Our primary customers are industrial facilities (not residences) that require HEAT, not electricity. Some of these facilities energy use breaks down as 80% heat, 20% electricity. Our smallest system (RHB100) typically requires either a grid connection or a 20MW solar field for charging, with our system providing 100MWh storage, delivering 7MWth (20MMBtu / 17,000 lb steam per hour) to a wide variety of industrial applications.
@travishanson166
January 30, 2024 at 2:59 pm
Never trust a man that doesn’t know I use nickel chromium wire in my electric foundry and my toaster oven and tungsten alloy heating elements on my stove. Furthermore his natural gas kilns probably need a bit of attention.
I’d rather have big trees, tall grass, pumpkins the size of a house and 200 bushel dry land corn. Plants need co2 to live.
Turns out so do we.
@tamsinlancashire4439
January 30, 2024 at 3:23 pm
Sounds like a storage heater. Does this mean I can repurpose my storage heaters to store heat instead of letting it out slowly 🤔
@markrichards8946
January 30, 2024 at 3:24 pm
This is fantastic, it gives me hope for the future. Please can you speak to our incompetent UK Government, as they are fully focused on only using fossil fuels and out of control costly nuclear!!!!!
@knotboards
January 30, 2024 at 3:25 pm
Where my physicists at… Get at this joker salesman.
@simonpannett8810
January 30, 2024 at 4:41 pm
Lacking Political willpower and Fossil Energy subsidies and bribes!! Get the Scientists and Engineers to drive the transition along with Citizen Assemblies!!!
@supertec2023
January 30, 2024 at 9:23 pm
No, we cannot agree on how to charge a cell phone 😂
@rondoenergy4228
January 31, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Cement, steel, etc. factories need a lot more energy than a cell phone, and they need it as HEAT, not electricity.
@WilsonFunTech
January 30, 2024 at 9:28 pm
how many people thought he was going to use wind and solar electricity to lift up the brick and then let gravity do the magic? 🤷♂️🙋♂️
@rondoenergy4228
January 31, 2024 at 4:15 pm
That is a real method for electricity storage. But we’re focusing on delivering heat to industry.
@Mrvictory61
January 30, 2024 at 10:00 pm
Very innovative 👌
@abdelkaioumbouaicha
January 31, 2024 at 9:49 am
📝 Summary of Key Points:
📌 The video emphasizes the need to reduce carbon emissions in the industrial sector without de-industrializing it.
🧐 Electrified industrial heat is presented as a potential solution, with decreasing costs of wind and solar power making it viable.
🚀 Heat storage is suggested as a way to ensure continuous clean heat supply, with various teams working on developing industrial heat batteries.
🚀 The video describes a specific method using radiant heat and a 3D checkerboard structure to efficiently store energy in bricks.
🚀 Heat batteries can be used to power industrial processes and have the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions.
💡 Additional Insights and Observations:
💬 “Decarbonize industry without de-industrializing it.”
📊 Industrial heat accounts for a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions.
🌐 Analysts predict electrified industrial heat to become a trillion-dollar market.
💬 “Heat batteries, powered by wind and solar energy, can significantly reduce the cost of producing necessary goods in a decarbonized world.”
📣 Concluding Remarks:
The video highlights the importance of finding a solution to reduce carbon emissions in the industrial sector. Electrified industrial heat and heat storage through technologies like heat batteries offer promising ways to decarbonize industry without compromising its productivity. By utilizing renewable energy sources, these solutions have the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions and contribute to a decarbonized world.
Generated using TalkBud
@reltech
January 31, 2024 at 12:22 pm
Hopefully they can hot swap heating elements to keep it at temperature for years. With new technology some people give up at the slightest glitch and go back to the ways they know. They’ll say anything remotely plausible to get back to their comfort zone. Moving the heat might not be so easy, but interesting to work on. High pressure steam and superheated water has better density than air. Air which is too hot gives you nitrous oxides. Integration with existing plant in a modular way needs experienced process engineers.
@rondoenergy4228
January 31, 2024 at 4:14 pm
Hey @reltech, our systems are rated for 40% year, and do not cause additional downtime for facilities. We’ve chatted with folks who have had the same plant running nonstop since the 70s, and they want to keep it that way!
@TJohnsonLLC
January 31, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Thank you John for the updated presentation. Best yet. If I was a young engineer I’d be finding a way to join this path. In retirement I’ll take solace for having participated in the development of efficient wind turbines, and looking forward to your rapid deployment of thermal storage systems utilizing clean energy. Congratulations for the impressive progress to date.
@antoniobortoni
January 31, 2024 at 5:25 pm
The cost? and if is a good business why dont do it?? so like a shower that reciclate water heat less water it save you water and gas or electricity, its the era of saving, so why you need to store energy if you are going to use less energy, like why i would use a computer wen i can use my phone that use less energy… mmm a good software optimization and new software more efficient and better can change all the wold consumption of energy, you want to save energy make a good android popular game.. the world save energy, small refrigerators, dont waste, do better world.
@rondoenergy4228
January 31, 2024 at 10:28 pm
Hi there, regarding “why dont you do it??” — We currently have the highest efficiency energy storage of any kind in the world today in commercial operation. This is a 2MWh unit for Calgren Renewable Fuels to help them reduce the carbon intensity of the ethanol they produce at that facility. This is also the highest temperature energy storage in commercial operation, storing and transferring energy at over 1000C.
@MRSketch09
January 31, 2024 at 7:06 pm
If this “Tech” is so great, why don’t they put it in electric heaters for home use? Or even in… Outdoor units, for homes?
@rondoenergy4228
January 31, 2024 at 10:27 pm
There are several companies working on this and some with commercial products. We’re designing the system for the 22% of global CO2 emissions caused by industry’s demand for heat — replacing their gas-fired boilers. We want to make the biggest difference the fastest, and in doing so, lowering the carbon footprint of the goods that we use everyday.
@backacheache
January 31, 2024 at 8:12 pm
Here in the centre of London, England we have a “waste to heat” power stations (whilst controversial) the waste heat from it could be used to charge of these then driven to local places that need cheap hest such as a “district heating” systems or swimming pools
@backacheache
January 31, 2024 at 8:18 pm
An application for this could be the Shetland islands in Scotland, the interlink to the mainland currently isn’t big enough for all wind and wave power they generate. With this system you could ship the energy on a boat to where it is needed!
@newfreenayshaun6651
February 1, 2024 at 9:51 am
How about you leave my CO2 alone and quit bugging poor people about it. We’re poor, not stupid.😂
@waterfoker8558
February 1, 2024 at 1:23 pm
I love this, simple, low cost, scalable, awesome!
@rondoenergy4228
February 1, 2024 at 3:20 pm
Thanks!
@tvmoviemaniac1
February 1, 2024 at 4:04 pm
That was a cool presentation and an excellent ad for Rondo. Was that a TED Talk or an Investor Sales Meeting? It is great to share amazing ideas but it begins to make me question their overall motive when it includes repeated plugs for their company. That is an issue with talk about Climate Change. It is real but all the financial motives being pushed seems to muddy the subject so people ask, “Is it legit or are they just selling the latest trend?” I know we need to throw money at these projects as well as the research. I just wish I knew how to do so without people wondering whose pockets are being padded…
@brentlanyon4654
February 1, 2024 at 6:43 pm
Good luck, John and Rondo – would love to catch up soon!
@AkumaQiu
February 1, 2024 at 7:33 pm
CO2 don’t matter at all