Graviton is a clean energy innovation company focused on one question:
What if a gigantic part of earth's unused water energy can be unlocked through a different physical principle?
A NEW PATH
in Hydropower
We are developing a buoyancy-based energy principle for low-head hydropower: A new physical path, built for one of the most overlooked opportunities in clean power.
The Graviton Principle
Imagine a heavyweight athlete trembling to bench press 150kg. Now think of a simple air mattress effortlessly lifting this weight as the water level rises.
Water does not need muscles; it only needs volume and the infinite patience of gravity to lift immense loads.
Just like a 20,000-ton cargo ship rising silently in a lock, our Graviton principle uses this sheer hydrostatic force to drive a generator.
INNOVATE
While the engineering community historically disregarded buoyancy pressure as inferior to turbine conversion, the founders of Graviton put their most innovative ideas to the test and invented a working and astonishingly efficient solution that is both highly scalable and adaptable.
The Graviton Dual Chamber
The Graviton Innovation
With its patented core innovation Graviton has solved and secured the baseline parameter puzzle for efficient and cost effective harvesting of the upward pressing energy of a buoyant body in water.
Minimized water inflow with optimal float-to-chamber ratios and materials are the foundation. On top of that a fine-tuned gearbox and the genius multi-chamber cascaded modular design with valves orchestrated by smart control systems create efficient and reliable power output.
The Graviton innovation combines basic physics and relatively low-tech components in a new and smart way to harness clean energy from water that has not been readily accessible before.
While solar panels sleep at night and wind turbines pause on the calm days, a Graviton system stoically generates baseload power as long as water flows. It requires no high-speed submerged turbine blades, resulting in drastically lower maintenance and a longer service life. Furthermore, it operates at minimal head heights of one to two meters and above. And it requires only a fraction of a river's flow to function economically on the small and tiny scale.
Limitless Applications
Our geometry-agnostic core technology can be scaled and fitted for multiple diverse end-markets across the globe. Applications range from off-grid tiny-hydro systems for remote villages to retrofitting massive ship locks and pump storage and industrial cooling water circuits. We also enable groundbreaking rooftop rain power, turning the rainwater runoff of commercial buildings into a profitable energy asset.
UNLOCK
Converting significantly more energy from low-head, low-pressure water drops than turbines: Our mission is to unlock application scenarios never before viable in hydropower.
Graviton Small Hydro
Graviton can retrofit and expand the electric output of existing weirs and ship lock installations. Graviton can as well be installed in thousands of stream and river scenarios worldwide, where conventional small hydro would be too expensive and require the building of massive cross-river-structures that Graviton can use but does not need.
Graviton Rooftop Rainpower
Graviton’s genius design can efficiently turn rainwater collected by big roofs into energy on demand - especially during periods where an already existing solar PV system delivers the least amount of energy. A Graviton Rooftop Rain Power system can even serve double duty as a small on-site pump storage unit for smart energy management.
Graviton Tiny Hydro
The smallest thinkable units of a Graviton dual chamber unit could deliver baseload energy with head as low as 1 or 2 meters and flow rates as low as 8-16 liters per second. Because the needed components are still low-cost in that tiny scale a “Tiny Graviton” could easily serve single households and small villages or remote network nodes and scientific installations in remote locations.
Graviton Small Pumped Storage
Graviton cascades operate efficiently from low head to 100+ meters, enabling both upgrades to existing pumped storage plants and new smaller-scale mechanical storage systems for commercial use and grid stabilization that were previously uneconomic.
Graviton Dam Retrofit
Graviton cascades can recover energy from residual and bypass flows at large dams, turning environmentally required discharge into useful power — even at high head and comparatively low flow volumes, using existing grid infrastructure more effectively throughout the year.
Graviton Industrial Water Circuit
Graviton cascades can recover energy from existing industrial water flows — including cooling circuits, mining systems, paper production, data centers, and wastewater discharge — without changing the underlying process. Huge energy recovery potential lies in global industrial water circuits that Graviton can harness.
Graviton Power Plant Ship
A long-term Graviton vision concept is a mobile power plant ship with multi-level cascades, designed to deliver flexible coastal power from locally available water flows, with future potential as a floating pumped storage system using integrated wave or tidal energy systems for pumping.
Engineering Clean Energy for everyone
Based on our core innovation we are currently collaborating in the ramp-up of the first pilot projects with early adopting users in the field.
At the same time we are raising capital for detailed R&D around essential industrial designs and niche-specific prototypes and certifications.
The founders and their team are working to provide a new platform technology that empowers many more partners worldwide to rapidly enable and democratize clean, reliable energy.
Along with our engineering and capital partners, as well as the early adopting clients we are highly motivated to bring an urgently needed practical solution to the global energy supply.
Join us in unleashing the silent force of water to create a more stable and sustainable future.
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Graviton Energie u. Technologie GmbH
Feldtmannstrasse 29
13088 Berlin
Germany