{"id":1360,"date":"2024-08-29T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2025-03-19T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:38:31","slug":"our-investment-in-found-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/2024\/08\/29\/our-investment-in-found-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our investment in Found Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide is-light is-style-adk-banner has-black-color has-text-color\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-white-background-color has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1362\" alt=\"Four Found Energy employees\u20141 man (far-left), three women (middle, middle-right, right) wearing blue Found Energy branded jumpsuits with black collars and protective eyewear and latex gloves. The group is standing around, working on, and looking at a contraption with metal rods, electric wiring, mechanical components, and a small computer fan. Setting: Fluorescent-it lab space.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy_IMG_0351.jpg\" style=\"object-position:0% 66%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"0% 66%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy_IMG_0351.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy_IMG_0351-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy_IMG_0351-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy_IMG_0351-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy_IMG_0351-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>A paradigm shift in decarbonizing heavy industry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/industrial-technologies\/doe-industrial-decarbonization-roadmap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pathways to decarbonization<\/a> are clearer for some <a href=\"https:\/\/liftoff.energy.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">industry sectors<\/a> than others. While significant progress has been made in energy production and passenger vehicles, heavy industrial sectors like industrial manufacturing, long-haul trucking, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/marketintelligence\/en\/news-insights\/latest-news-headlines\/path-to-net-zero-major-shipping-firms-show-ambition-in-hard-to-abate-sector-78120103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">maritime shipping<\/a> face challenges when it comes to meeting ambitious decarbonization goals without sacrificing productivity and growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>The opportunity in aluminum<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With its versatility, ubiquity, and strength-to-weight properties, aluminum is one of the most widely used materials on Earth. And like other hard-to-abate sectors, emissions from aluminum production have been historically difficult to decarbonize for many reasons, but especially its need for large amounts of uninterrupted heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge of decarbonization becomes even more pressing given that demand for aluminum is expected to grow by more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/11\/the-aluminium-industry-s-carbon-footprint-is-higher-than-most-consumers-expect-heres-what-we-must-do-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50% by 2050<\/a>\u2014a result of the growth and changes across construction, transportation, power transmission, and beyond. Depending on how you scope it, aluminum production accounts for roughly 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is primed to become an even larger portion of climate change-inducing emissions in the decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given how widely aluminum is used, it should also come as no surprise that much of it ends up in landfills as waste. Even with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.com\/publications\/2022\/whats-holding-back-aluminum-recycling-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">impressive recycling rates in some markets<\/a>, two to four million tons of aluminum scrap goes to landfill each year in the US alone, accounting for up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling\/aluminum-material-specific-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2% of all municipal solid waste<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if instead of wasting aluminum, we could turn it into a valuable input for decarbonizing aluminum production itself? And, more broadly, what if we could turn one of Earth\u2019s most abundant metals into clean fuel for use by other industries that are starved for cheap and carbon-free alternatives? The answer might reside in the embedded energy in aluminum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Why Found Energy?<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Autodesk Foundation is pleased to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.found.energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Found Energy<\/a> to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.org\/portfolio#energy-and-materials\">Energy &amp; Materials<\/a> portfolio. Found Energy is a startup on a mission to revolutionize global energy systems with technology that efficiently converts aluminum into heat and hydrogen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Found Energy\u2019s innovative aluminum-thermal power system offers the first economically viable approach to harnessing energy from the oxidation of aluminum. Found Energy first activates aluminum scrap by coating it with its proprietary catalyst. The system uses a continuous process to react activated aluminum scrap with water. In doing so, Found Energy generates productive on-site energy from the released steam and hydrogen, as well as alumina trihydrate (ATH), a raw material input used in the production of aluminum itself. The result is an upcycling of aluminum into value for aluminum and alumina producers, saving them on operating costs (in reducing energy and ATH inputs), creating more localized supply chains, and reducing reliance on coal, natural gas, and bauxite reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Found Energy estimates that its technology has the potential to reduce emissions from aluminum production alone by 170 million metric tons of CO<sub>2<\/sub>e per year.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> At scale, the power system can convert around 120 kilograms of aluminum scrap into 1 megawatt-hour of clean energy\u2014enough to power an average US household for a full month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1446\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy-3.jpg\" alt=\"Found Energy Senior Materials Engineer Ingrid Guha standing in front of a venting workbench, spraying water from a translucent squirt bottle onto an aluminum feedstock (in a petri dish) that has been activated with Found Energy's catalyst to study its reactivity. Guha is wearing a blue Found Energy branded blue collared shirt, clear safety classes, and black nitrile gloves.\" class=\"wp-image-1364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy-3.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy-3-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy-3-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy-3-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Found-Energy-3-1536x1157.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Found Energy Senior Materials Engineer Ingrid Guha testing the reactivity of Found Energy\u2019s aluminum feedstock<\/strong>. Image courtesy of Found Energy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking beyond, however, Found Energy also enables an exciting paradigm shift in how the economy treats aluminum\u2014not as a metal, but as an energy carrier. Aluminum is two times more energy dense than diesel and ten times more energy dense than liquidized hydrogen. An efficient conversion of aluminum into energy (or energy into aluminum) holds the promise of overcoming the massive barriers holding back today\u2019s heavy industrial sectors from decoupling growth from emissions\u2014issues like needing to build out entirely new production and distribution infrastructure for other zero-carbon fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our collaboration<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to our investment, Found Energy will leverage Autodesk design and make technology, industry expertise and talent, and commercial networks to develop its power system and scale its adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Found Energy plans to train its new team members in Autodesk software and currently uses the AutoCAD Plant 3D toolset to create detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/solutions\/pid-software\">piping and instrumentation diagrams<\/a> for its power system designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\" id=\"etosha\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1366 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq-345x345.jpg 345w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Peter-Godart-headshot-sq.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><em><strong><em>\u201cWith the Autodesk Foundation\u2019s support, we are accelerating the scale-up and deployment of our breakthrough low-carbon aluminum fuel technology to the industries and geographic regions that need it the most.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Peter Godart, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, Found Energy<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Learn more about how Found Energy\u2019s breakthrough low-carbon fuel technology is revolutionizing aluminum production and decarbonizing heavy industry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-style-default is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-7263b898 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.org\/portfolio\/found-energy\" class=\"\n            MuiButtonBase-root MuiButton-root\n            wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\n            \n            \n            \n            MuiButton-outlined\n        \">\n\n        <span class=\"MuiButton-label\">\n            \n            \nLearn more\n\n            \n        <\/span>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a id=\"_ftn1\" href=\"#_ftnref1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> Found Energy\u2019s 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