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00:03Thank you, thank you. I could ask you a couple of questions. First thing I wonder, so these robots, are
00:10you leasing them to these clients?
00:13Yes, they are currently on a lease model, so the company doesn't have to invest upfront in buying the robots
00:20and they can pay us a monthly fee, which includes maintenance and servicing of the robots also.
00:25Okay, so basically you're leasing them by month?
00:29Yes.
00:29And then that way you get to maintain them and keep on top of them?
00:33And there's no hard upfront investment, there's no capital purchase required by the company, and it's a lower operating model
00:38for them.
00:39Okay, good. Another thing that springs to my mind when I'm looking at that, how do you deal, for example,
00:44with vandalism and theft? Is that a big challenge for you?
00:47Not so far, so if you notice, our robots are slightly higher and they weigh more than the other robots,
00:55so it has been very difficult for a person to lift a 120 kilogram robot and take it away.
01:01So how much does it weigh?
01:02120 kilograms.
01:03Okay, 122 grams, alright, so not very easy to pick up and walk away with.
01:07Alright, ladies and gentlemen, Deepak from Autonomy, round of applause.
01:11Thank you.
01:16Okay, alright then. So now we're going to go into a new segment which is based on clean energy and
01:21I'm very, very interested to hear this next presentation, which comes from a company called Switch, who have a very,
01:30very interesting initiative to produce clean energy.
01:34And honestly, the science and technology behind this, I think, is something that sounds to me like a very, very
01:42realizable solution.
01:45And here to tell you more is Nicolas from Switch. Welcome.
01:53Yeah, take it, yeah.
01:59Alright, thank you very much.
02:02I guess if we are here today, it's probably because we share the view that we need to accelerate energy
02:08transition and especially electricity generation.
02:13Because we're going to need a lot of electricity, probably way much more than we think.
02:19And the point is that current renewables, they will never be sufficient to make the shift, right?
02:25And the current forecast actually, they show that in 30 years from now, we will still generate 50% of
02:33global electricity from coal and gas.
02:37That's not good, right?
02:40So, we need new sources of renewable energy to make a proper transition, to make the shift.
02:48There are not many available, actually. We know most of them, if not all of them.
02:52But there is one that is called osmotic power.
02:56And osmotic power is the natural energy that you got when seawater and freshwater mix.
03:03It's a great energy because it's everywhere on Earth, in all deltas and estuaries on Earth.
03:10And every year, we have about 30,000 TWh of osmotic energy that is available.
03:19It's a great energy. It's a grail of renewable energy.
03:23Because it's renewable, obviously, but also because it's permanent.
03:28Days, nights, all along the year, you have osmotic energy.
03:33And it's obviously emission-free.
03:37So, for that reason, for the last 70 years, scientists, academics, industrials have been looking for a way to harness
03:48this energy at large scale.
03:49But the technology was not available to do it because it was very, very, very expensive.
03:58Our team of researchers, scientists, engineers have been working for seven years to develop this osmotic generator.
04:08It's a technology called INODE.
04:11And basically, it is based on a completely new membrane.
04:14So, inside this module, you have hundreds of membranes.
04:18And you have fresh water and seawater circulating and producing energy thanks to the particular properties of the membrane.
04:27It is seven years of research.
04:29It is a completely patented technology.
04:31And for the first time ever, with this type of module, we can deploy osmotic power at a very, very
04:38large scale.
04:40So, how it looks?
04:42Well, this is not a dam, right?
04:44This is by the river or even it could be a floating system where you will have a lot of
04:51modules that I showed you before.
04:52And you will take fresh water from the river, seawater from the sea, and the two of them will mix
04:59smoothly in the system and produce ionic current that we convert into electricity.
05:06All the water basically goes back to the delta or the estuary.
05:11So, there is no environmental impact.
05:14We are just concentrating the mix of the two flows in the system and then it goes back to the
05:21estuary.
05:21This is huge.
05:24It is expected that in 30, 40 years from now, we could provide up to 15% of global electricity
05:35needs thanks to osmotic energy.
05:39And the beauty here is that it is starting now, right?
05:45We are starting to deploy.
05:47We started, we are a French company, we are based in Brittany, but we look global.
05:52And we started in France, in the south of France, on the Rhône River Delta, where you have the largest
05:58reserve of osmotic power on the Rhône River.
06:01And we are working with the Compagnie National du Rhône to deploy osmotic power there.
06:07Just to give you an order of magnitude, on the Rhône River Delta, we could install up to 500 megawatt
06:14power capacity, which could provide electricity for 1.5 million people's baselot power all day long, right?
06:23We are also working with EDF, the French utility, to deploy osmotic power at a very large scale in France
06:32and other parties of the world.
06:33Obviously, we are looking in North America, in Canada, there are a lot of osmotic power available in South America,
06:40in Asia.
06:40Osmotic power is everywhere, and we are the only company in the world who control and have this technology to
06:47harness this energy at a competitive cost.
06:52So it's starting now.
06:54We need you guys.
06:56We need your brains.
06:57We need you as investors.
06:59We need you as supporters.
07:01And you are all welcome to join.
07:02We have a booth just behind you.
07:05And we will be happy to tell you more if you visit us there.
07:07Thank you very much.
07:11All right.
07:12Thank you.
07:12Thank you, Nicola.
07:13Well, it looks like we have some time for some questions, huh?
07:16So...
07:17Good.
07:19So this is very, very interesting.
07:21All right.
07:21Just to kind of make a resume of all of that.
07:23So what you're doing is that you're building plants in coastal cities where fresh water meets the sea.
07:29And then what you're doing is you're running two channels into essentially what is a power plant.
07:34And into some kind of very recent technological reactive sort of thing.
07:40And basically running the two liquids.
07:43Now you're mixing them together or you're running them side by side, but they're separated by something.
07:47So the idea is basically the two flows on each side of the membrane.
07:53There are membranes inside the system.
07:55And these membranes are particular properties.
07:57They select the ions that can circulate into them, right?
08:01And if you have positive ions...
08:02Okay, so the two fluids do not mix.
08:04They are...
08:04Well, and progressively it's mixed, actually.
08:06Okay, progressively it's mixed.
08:07It mixes in the system.
08:07Through a membrane.
08:08Right.
08:08Okay, okay, all right.
08:09And we're applying basically very recent breakthrough in nanotechnologies and in biomaterials.
08:15Sorry.
08:16All membranes are made of biomaterials, low-cost materials that are completely clean.
08:21There is no chemical products whatsoever.
08:24And so when we return the water to the delta, there is no impact on biodiversity, which is obviously critical.
08:30You can also see that the type of system that we're using are very modular.
08:34So we can have many different setups to install the technology.
08:38It's a very smooth process.
08:40There is no smoke.
08:41There is no noise.
08:42There is no high tower.
08:43And I think it's also a critical factor because acceptability of these technologies, environmentally
08:50and socially, is very important.
08:51And the type of technologies that we have designed allow for that.
08:55Okay, great.
08:56So, for example, if you build one of these plants, which are, okay, creating this process,
09:02how much...
09:03Could one of these plants power, for example, a city nearby?
09:06Yes.
09:07As I said, you know, on the Rhône River, for instance, you know, we can install up to 500 megawatt
09:13power capacity,
09:14which is half a nuclear plant, basically, right?
09:16Half a nuclear plant.
09:17And you could provide electricity for Marseille, you know, and the suburb of Marseille, right?
09:241.5 million people.
09:26So this is huge, right?
09:27And this is here in France that we've managed to develop this technology.
09:30Now, if you go to some very large river in South America, you can power tens of millions of people
09:37with osmotic power.
09:39Okay, right, of course.
09:40So obviously, not just in France, but this can be replicated all over the world.
09:44Sure.
09:45So you said 1.5.
09:4615% of the world's electricity could be generated like this?
09:49Yeah.
09:50If you include this natural osmotic power that you got in deltas and estuaries, plus other sources,
09:56because actually there are many other places where you can have osmotic power,
09:59well, what you need is a salinity gradient between two flows.
10:03Yeah.
10:03Ultimately, we could provide up to 15% of global electricity demand, right?
10:09And electricity demand is going to double in the next 30 years, right?
10:13Okay, so electricity demand is going to double in the next how long, sorry?
10:17Sorry?
10:17In how many years is it going to double?
10:1930 years.
10:1930 years, okay.
10:20Well, we are electrifying everything.
10:22So we're talking about cars, we're talking about airplanes.
10:24Cars, with developing countries that are more and more demanding in electricity.
10:27Yeah, the reduction of fossil fuels, gas, everything.
10:30Exactly.
10:31Switching means we need more electricity, probably way more than we think actually.
10:36And so we need new sources to produce this electricity.
10:40Yeah.
10:40And again, you know, forecasts today show that in 2050, we still expect that half of electricity
10:48will be generated from coal and gas.
10:51We are nowhere close to the objective, to the net zero objective at global scale, right?
10:56And the point is that there are not many renewable sources available, right?
11:00We know most of them.
11:01Yeah.
11:02And this one is probably one of the last ones that we can exploit.
11:05The good news is that it's here.
11:07It's been here since the start, I would say.
11:10It's been since the fifties, scientists have been looking for ways to harness this energy.
11:16And eventually we made it, you know.
11:17So we know we need to go fast.
11:19It's a complex thing, you know, because we need to create a product to deploy.
11:23That's why we're working with EDF and other large companies because they have the knowledge also to deploy this type
11:28of infrastructure.
11:30So that's quite a challenge.
11:31That's what I say.
11:32We need you.
11:33We already have a good, strong support from our investors, from BPI, ADEM, European community.
11:43But we need more and more.
11:44So you're more than welcome to visit us and see how we can participate to that project.
11:49Okay.
11:49Thank you.
11:50So one more thing.
11:50So about the waste, obviously, once it's passed through the system, because, I mean, you know, the waste is actually
11:59not corrosive.
12:01For example, I compare it to a desalination plant, you know, which produces brine, which is very, very toxic for
12:07the ocean.
12:08Desalination plant, our brine is very, very concentrated, right?
12:12Yeah.
12:12Where here, what we do is exactly what happens anyway in the Delta, right?
12:17Because we're just mixing the fresh water with the seawater.
12:20So you will have a mix, which is an average water, right?
12:24Yeah.
12:24Which is what you have anyway in the Delta or the estuary.
12:27So I'm not changing the type of water.
12:30So in that sense, it is not comparable with desalination because desalination is very concentrated brine, which is not the
12:37case here.
12:37Okay.
12:38All right.
12:38All right. Thank you very much.
12:39Thank you very much.
12:40Thank you.
12:41Switch.
12:42Nicholas and switch.
12:45All righty.
12:46So we got five minutes.
12:48Yeah.
12:49Or we continue.
12:50Yeah.
12:51Okay.
12:55Yeah.
12:55It looks like the team's getting hungry, huh?
13:04All right.
13:08So now we're going to go into the future of plants.
13:14And we're going to now present two technology innovations called Neoplant and Morpho.
13:22So they're going to follow each other.
13:23And basically they're becoming major players in resolving environmental challenges through superpowered photosynthesis and advanced technological reforestation techniques.
13:36So yeah, this is what they're doing.
13:38Here to tell you more, I would like to introduce...
13:44Sorry.
13:47Okay.
13:48Nice to meet you.
13:48Nice to meet you.
13:51Thank you.
13:54Everyone doing great?
13:56I'm from Norway.
13:58So I'm a bit slow.
13:59So please beware me.
14:01Okay.
14:02So I'm supposed to have something to...
14:06Yeah.
14:09Okay.
14:10So I'm representing the...
14:12Okay.
14:12Sorry.
14:13I'm representing the World Wide Wind.
14:16It's a Norwegian company that are going to produce the largest windmills in history.
14:24So we are developing the windmills right now.
14:30We are 18 months old and we have conquered the world.
14:34Because we are doing it on a whole new way compared to the existing conventional turbines.
14:44The existing conventional turbines are top heavy.
14:49I'm going to get back to that.
14:51But you know, every...
14:53The big winds are on offshore.
14:55And this is...
14:58This is...
14:5880% of the wind are out there.
15:01You have to have a floater and you have a floating wind to gain...
15:05To have all...
15:06To get to the wind.
15:08And today's conventional wind turbines is really top heavy.
15:12They really need to replicate land.
15:15So they need a big floater to be stable.
15:17They can't move more than 5%.
15:22So that's why they need this big, top heavy...
15:27No...
15:28Heavy steel constructions to be able to take the wind.
15:35So what we are doing, we are doing the opposite.
15:38We got inspired from a sailboat.
15:41So we are replicating a sailboat with our system.
15:47So this is the way we do this.
15:51This is a counter-rotating vertical floating turbine.
15:55And it has two set of rotors.
15:59Two set of blades.
16:01And the one, the upper blade rotates the stator.
16:04And the lower blades rotates the stator.
16:08So we get the double effect of the amount of the generator.
16:15And it also tilts with the wind, like a sailboat.
16:22Okay.
16:23You can stop the video now.
16:28Okay, still going on.
16:29Okay.
16:30So this is why...
16:31This is the construction.
16:32You have the generator, the heavy stuff down here.
16:36We use the cheapest magnets.
16:39This is the heavy magnets.
16:41We don't care because the heavy stuff is supposed to be down there.
16:46Down low.
16:47And then we have a floater.
16:49And then we have the mast which is rotating with the floater and the generator.
16:53And moves the rotor.
16:56And then we have the top blades.
16:59You can see the model down there.
17:01And that rotates in the opposite direction.
17:04So it rotates the stator.
17:07So that gives us the double of the effect of the generator.
17:12Okay.
17:14So we are planning for doing up till 40 megawatt with this construction.
17:20But with this technology, we can scale to 90 megawatt, 90 megawatt on just one turbine.
17:28And because of the density, the wake, we can put it...
17:32We can double the amount of turbines on the field.
17:37So we get up to four times more out of the field with this technology.
17:45So what we are doing now, we are testing it.
17:48And we will have the first demonstrator out in the sea within three months.
17:53And then we will scale to...
17:55And that's a 30 kilowatt.
17:57And then we will scale to 1.5 megawatt.
18:00And then to 40 megawatt and then further.
18:04So the important thing is...
18:11Okay, sorry.
18:14So...
18:15The big or important thing is to mention that it's 40 plus megawatt.
18:22And we can reduce CO2.
18:24We will probably come down to a levelized cost of 30 US dollars per megawatt hour.
18:36And the logistics, because we can build them like horizontally.
18:41Like a fold umbrella.
18:43And we can tow it out on the sea and use gravity to raise it.
18:48We don't need big cranes.
18:55Or big supply ships to do this.
19:01And we will use a wooden tower.
19:04So we will build the biggest, largest wooden tower in the world.
19:08And it's glulam.
19:09And it's coated with aluminum.
19:12And that makes everything recyclable.
19:15That's very important for us.
19:17Underneath, we will...
19:19Under this...
19:19At the sea level, we will try to do...
19:23You know, we will build a...
19:27What do you call it in English?
19:29It's a...
19:30We will take care of the fish.
19:32In a way that we will prepare for corals and so forth.
19:37So the thing is, with the counter-rotating system, it takes the torque out of the mooring.
19:43And that's the whole idea behind this.
19:48Yes?
19:49Yeah.
19:51And...
19:52You weren't in the program.
19:54Remind me the name of the solution?
19:55Your solution?
19:56The name?
19:57It's what I mean.
19:59It's a counter-rotating vertical turbine.
20:06It's a CLT.
20:07It's a counter-rotating vertical turbine.
20:09It doesn't have no name.
20:11Okay.
20:12Okay.
20:13Can I say it?
20:14Yes, please.
20:14So the thing is, the name of the turbine is a CRVT.
20:18It's a counter-rotating vertical tilting turbine.
20:22So, yeah.
20:23We don't have a name.
20:24We have a name.
20:24It's WorldWaveWin.
20:26And, yeah.
20:27Okay.
20:27But it's a solution, basically, for a more economical and easier, cheaper to produce wind turbine,
20:33which goes further out in the sea.
20:34You don't have to build...
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