The object
Tonio Sant co-invented FLASC, a subsea compressed-air storage system that uses pressurised seawater as a liquid piston. The mechanical installation stores surplus offshore-wind energy and can return it through a turbine, using the ocean as a heat sink rather than a separate thermal-storage unit.
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What Tonio did
Co-invented the FLASC liquid-piston compressed-air storage system for offshore wind farms.
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Why it matters
The EPO selected the FLASC team as 2024 European Inventor Award research finalists and describes the system’s 93% work-recovery claim.
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Living-status check
The EPO’s 16 May 2024 release quotes Tonio Sant describing the working system and identifies the inventor as a 2024 finalist.