TROLYSIS

Trolysis is bringing an entirely new renewable energy system to the world. By harnessing recycled aluminum as fuel, we are able to produce hydrogen and electricity at a cost that is competitive with not only other renewables (solar, wind, etc), but also with fossil fuels. Who are we? Our team includes bright, dedicated individuals from Google, NASA, Harvard, Stanford, MIT and even a Forbes 30 Under 30. We are a small, but very strong and tight-knit team and beyond just being a team, we are all ... good friends. How do we do it? By orchestrating a series of chemical reactions, we are able to strip aluminum of a thin, naturally-occurring barrier. Once this barrier is stripped, the aluminum will freely react with water to liberate hydrogen from the water molecules. Why is nobody else doing this? Simple - until Trolysis came along, it has been a "net-negative" process. The sheer fact that it took electricity to split water (electrolysis) or remove the barrier from aluminum (pulverization) meant that the output of the system (hydrogen) would be less energy than what was put in. What we do differently is eliminate the need for electricity input by utilizing chemical reactions. this means you're converting chemical energy (which is abundant) to hydrogen and electricity (which are valuable and scarce). More