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Paul Huelskamp and<\/span> Alex Meek were hiking near Mount Tamalpais in Marin County a few years ago when the peaceful quiet of the woods began to give way to the clatter of a diesel generator. When they came upon it, they saw it \u201cspewing black smoke\u201d into the otherwise cool, crisp air, Huelskamp recalled.<\/p>\n The generator had been deployed to provide power during one of the many public safety shutoffs imposed by California\u2019s utilities to prevent wildfires, and Huelskamp was struck by the inanity of it all.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we walked past this thing, I was like, \u2018Alex, look at this machine \u2014 isn\u2019t it ridiculous that this is what we use when we need electricity? We have to burn diesel fuel in an engine and throw that mechanical energy through an alternator to generate electrons.\u2019 It\u2019s absolutely ridiculous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The pair talked about how batteries are poised to disrupt a number of industries, so why not portable power generation?<\/p>\n \u201cWe continued that thought experiment for a couple of weeks, and we couldn\u2019t really really let it go,\u201d Huelskamp said. Together, they founded Moxion Power in 2020, and in 2021, they joined Y Combinator as part of the winter cohort.<\/p>\n Today, Moxion landed a $100 million Series B led by Tamarack Global with participation from Series A lead investor Energy Impact Partners. Other investors include Sunbelt Rentals, Amazon\u2019s Climate Pledge Fund, Microsoft\u2019s Climate Innovation Fund, Enterprise Holdings Ventures, Marubeni Ventures, Suffolk Technologies, and Rocketship.vc.<\/p>\n Sunbelt Rentals stands out in that list because the company owns a massive number of diesel- and gasoline-powered generators that provide electricity to construction sites, film locations, concert festivals, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Huelskamp and Alex Meek were hiking near Mount Tamalpais in Marin County a few years ago when the peaceful quiet of the woods began to give way to the clatter of a diesel generator. When they came upon it, they saw it \u201cspewing black smoke\u201d into the otherwise cool, crisp air, Huelskamp recalled. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}