Congratulations to  CEO Linda Zhong and her team for the outstanding presentation at our Rising Star Showcase on October 22.  She showed how their latest technologies for making anodes and cathodes for batteries avoided half of the capital cost (with an 80% smaller footprint), eliminated toxic solvents entirely, cut energy consumption for the process by 70%, and improved power density dramatically.  One of the judges called it “impressive”, and another asked why all battery manufacturers had not adopted her new technology since it was so clearly superior.  Ultimately, it was up to the audience of over 80 people to cast their votes, and they overwhelmingly chose LiCAP.  Here is a copy of her presentation.

The runner-up was Kevin Wolf and WindHarvest, who made a strong case that with his innovation to capture near-ground turbulent wind, a huge amount of new capacity could be added in both existing wind farms as well as in new locations where the big tall turbines simply are not appropriate. Here is a copy of his presentation.

In all, we had ten companies presenting, and we received many positive comments about the high quality of them all.  Each company also had an exhibit table where people could find out more about them.  Here is a copy of the program for the event.