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Teenage Physicist to Cleantech Crash – Danielle Fong 1/5
Deep Future
Danielle Fong on becoming a physicist early, founding LightSail Energy, and surviving the cleantech bust with harder lessons about capital, timing, and technical conviction.
View originalDanielle Fong started in physics young, then walked straight into one of the hardest problems in energy: storing power at civilizational scale. LightSail made her famous and the cleantech bust made the lessons permanent. In this episode, we go back to the beginning — Canada, physics, the bet on compressed-air storage, and the collision between deep technical ambition and a market that wasn’t ready.
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- July 27, 2026
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