KeithDPatchMay 14, 2025
🧵1/2 Lockheed Martin lays off 64 at their Massachusetts GridStar Flow battery plant per @bostonglobe.com
LockheedMartin also scrubbed all battery work from their website & shut down a #FlowBattery demo at Ft. Carson, CO.
No status update on a LM JV with Romania.
#battery #BESS #grid
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🧵2/2 So ends what started as Dan Nocera's #SunCatalytix MIT / Harvard startup. Sun Catalytix pivoted from the artificial leaf to flow batteries when they decided their artificial leaf could never beat conventional electrolysis.
Lockheed Martin bought #SunCatalytix in 2014
May 14, 2025 at 10:15pmWeb
Show threadGetzler Lab at KenyonCollegeMay 15, 2025
@keithdpatch bummer. I remember following the artificial leaf work in the primary lit
Show threadKeithDPatchMay 15, 2025

@GetzlerChem

I followed the Artificial Leaf work as well. And I was lucky enough to hear Nocera speak in one of my MIT Sloan ExecEd classes.⬇️

Sadly, I know about a dozen who worked/are working on the GridStar product. I wish them all well!