From a pure technical perspective, I’d bet that some of the ocean-based pumped energy storage companies are going to make a lot of money in 5-10 years. I think dealing with saltwater is a solvable problem here and they’re just going to dominate pneumatic pumped storage or thermal batteries for coastal markets, because of higher efficiency. Not quite semiconductor though, except if as you count them as a dependent of solar and solar as semiconductor :P
From a pure technical perspective, I’d bet that some of the ocean-based pumped energy storage companies are going to make a lot of money in 5-10 years. I think dealing with saltwater is a solvable problem here and they’re just going to dominate pneumatic pumped storage or thermal batteries for coastal markets, because of higher efficiency. Not quite semiconductor though, except if as you count them as a dependent of solar and solar as semiconductor :P