# Decarbonizing Heavy Industry: Antora Energy’s 2400°C Thermal Batteries

- Show: [Hardware to Save a Planet](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet)
- Published: 2025-04-24
- Length: 37m
- Episode: 77
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-04-24-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-antora-energys-2400-c-thermal-batteries
- Listen: https://podcasts.fame.so/e/rnkmk04n-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-nehali-jain

## Summary

Nehali Jain, Chief of Staff at Antora Energy, explains how the company uses thermal batteries to store renewable electricity as heat in carbon blocks reaching 2,400°C for decarbonizing heavy industry. She details the choice of abundant carbon for its high energy density and safety, the modular design of the 'Heat Core' product, and the company's 'heat as a service' business model. Jain discusses the transition from pilot deployments to serial production and the strategic focus on solving industrial intermittency with cost-effective thermal storage.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-04-24-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-antora-energys-2400-c-thermal-batteries#t=0) Introduction and Guest Background
- [5:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-04-24-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-antora-energys-2400-c-thermal-batteries#t=318) Antora's Carbon-Based Thermal Battery Technology
- [10:19](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-04-24-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-antora-energys-2400-c-thermal-batteries#t=619) Product Strategy: Heat Core and TTPV
- [13:24](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-04-24-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-antora-energys-2400-c-thermal-batteries#t=804) Engineering Challenges and Material Selection
- [26:44](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-04-24-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-antora-energys-2400-c-thermal-batteries#t=1604) Scaling, Manufacturing, and Business Model
- [33:08](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-04-24-decarbonizing-heavy-industry-antora-energys-2400-c-thermal-batteries#t=1988) Climate Optimism and Career Advice

## Topics

- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)
- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Antora Energy (company)
- Sun Power (company)
- Forge (company)
- Heat Core (product)

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