Eugene Beh is the founder of Quino Energy, where he’s commercializing organic flow batteries that are safer, cheaper, and more scalable than their vanadium and lithium-ion cousins. With a background in physics and chemistry from Harvard and Stanford, Eugene has traded academic labs for chemical plants—and he’s betting that petroleum byproducts might just be the unlikely hero of long-duration energy storage.

In this episode we talked about:

🔋 Why Quino's aqueous organic flow batteries don’t catch fire, unlike lithium-ion
💰 How Eugene expects his electrolytes to undercut vanadium on cost—possibly this year
🏗️ Why reusing tank infrastructure could slash battery installation costs
🌍 What makes Quino’s batteries geopolitically boring, and why that’s a good thing
🏥 Why hospitals, factories, and AI-fueled data centers might be early adopters
🛢️ And how coal tar and clothing dye might save us from an electrified future dominated by flammable batteries

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