The energy story.
From heart to hands.
Why OpenIE exists. The arithmetic of waste. The products that should exist. The ten domains of energy. All in under 14 minutes.
Eco-Engineering
Why OpenIE exists. Forests becoming data centers. The 60% waste problem. Every watt saved is a forest that stays.
The 90% Thesis
The arithmetic of energy waste. Data centers use more electricity than Japan. How managed systems go from 39.5% to 87.9% efficiency.
The Drone That Doesn't Come Home
A wildfire drone aborts at 47 minutes. Same drone, energy-optimized, finishes the job. Energy optimization as capability, not cost savings.
Products that don't exist yet — but every component is real, available, and on a datasheet. The gap isn't technology. It's assembly.
Smart Power Strip
0:45$15 BOM. Harvests ambient energy. CVR at the socket. GaN at 98.5% efficiency.
Battery-Free Sensor
0:46No battery. Ever. Indoor light + RF powered. Lasts as long as the building.
DC-Direct Rack
0:42Skip 4 conversion stages. 48V DC bus. 15-20% reclaimed. Open reference design.
Smart Wall Socket
0:41Drop-in outlet replacement. CVR at the plug. 5-10% building-wide savings.
Harvest-Powered Edge Node
0:40$15-25 BOM. Solar + piezo + thermoelectric. Biodegradable enclosure option.
One short per domain. Each under 30 seconds. The physics of why energy leaks — and where the opportunities are.
Harvesting
0:28Ambient energy from light, vibration, heat, and radio waves.
Generation
0:23Solar at $0.02/kWh. Abundance shifts the bottleneck downstream.
Conversion
0:26Six conversion stages. 67% total. One third is heat.
Conditioning
0:26UPS standby waste. Match conditioning to actual power quality.
Distribution
0:23200 TWh lost in US grid transmission. Localize generation.
Storage
0:23Time-shifting energy. Charge cheap, discharge peak.
Measurement
0:233 mJ vs 300 mJ. Per-workload visibility changes everything.
Management
0:29The missing center. 39.5% → 87.9% with orchestration.
Recovery
0:31Waste heat is a resource. Nordic data centers heat homes.
Renewal
0:22Managed batteries last 2-3x longer. Lifecycle-aware scheduling.
Walk through the simulator. Run a simulation, change parameters, see the physics evolve in microseconds.
FERRIX — Your First Simulation
0:56Open the simulator. Run the basic preset. Change diffusivity. Watch profiles evolve. See how every simulation reports its energy cost in millijoules.
Run the simulator.
FERRIX models plasma transport and battery electrochemistry. Change parameters. See profiles evolve. Measure the energy cost.