Fourth Power
Building thermal energy storage technology to buffer the grid, as variable electricity sources replace polluting ones
First Investment: 2022
Fuel management, also known as prescribed burning, is the key to preventing out-of-control wildfires, but it’s labor-intensive, weather-dependent, polluting, and risky. BurnBot’s RX1 robot is a mobile burn chamber that ignites, contains, and extinguishes a fire as it rolls across the landscape. It acts as a force multiplier for prescribed-burn crews.
