Radia, Inc.

Today, Radia is pleased to announce that Italian aerospace company MAGROUP will be developing the landing system for the WindRunner aircraft, joining a growing list of suppliers?that will develop various on-board systems for WindRunner. Magnaghi is a world-class supplier, and we are thrilled to welcome them to our team!?https://lnkd.in/gC5bQqiy

Thanks Jason Bordoff - we agree that thinking outside the box is essential to solving big problems. Check out MCJ's "Inevitable" podcast with our founder and CEO Mark Lundstrom to learn more about Radia's vision and progress.

Radia extends a huge?congratulations?to?Wilhem Hector?on his recent selection as a?Rhodes Trust Scholar?at Oxford University. Prior to this distinction, Hector interned at Radia for multiple years. During his time working on Radia’s Development and Modeling teams, Hector took initiative, spread enthusiasm, and developed valuable skills. He built and deployed a neural network for long-term wind speed predictions on project sites, he leveraged machine learning to enhance Radia’s project modeling capabilities, and he built and integrated an internal model to analyze sound power levels in communities around project sites. We hope to welcome Hector back to Radia after his time as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. ? Radia is a springboard for talents like Hector to work in a fast-paced environment, learn about renewable technology solutions, and get exposure to energy and engineering projects. If you’d like to join our team or learn more about our company mission, email?[email protected]?to express interest and be notified about future internship opportunities. Congratulations again, Hector!

Our next guest is building the world’s largest aircraft, the WindRunner, to transport massive offshore-sized turbine blades to onshore sites. ?? Imagine wind turbines the height of the Eiffel Tower with blades longer than a football field. These larger turbines could transform the economics of onshore wind, making energy cheaper and more accessible. In this episode, Radia, Inc. CEO Mark Lundstrom and Cody dive into his company's verticalized approach to addressing a major challenge in wind energy: the physical limitations of transporting turbine blades via the U.S. interstate highway system. ??? Listen at the links below!

I get asked a lot about the origin story of Radia, Inc., so here you go. I started Radia in 2016 to explore if there were opportunities at the intersection of aerospace and energy to reduce CO2 emissions - and also have a very profitable business. Shortly after Radia was founded, a press release came out from two wind turbine manufacturers that compete for every deal globally. They were frustrated that the energy industry knows how to make offshore-sized turbines and deploy them in places like the North Sea but can't take that knowledge to deploy them onshore where the market is an order of magnitude larger. Their release asked if an aerospace company, engineer, or entrepreneur could help them figure out how to airlift an object that weighs 45 tons and is over 100 meters in length, and land it on a piece of dirt in the middle of a wind farm. I showed up within a week and started working with them. Our massive cargo aircraft WindRunner is our solution to the problem as it can deliver offshore-sized blades onshore and enable what we call GigaWind. The Radia team is the driving force behind our success. I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished together towards bringing WindRunner and GigaWind online.

Today we thank the veterans who have served this great country and their families. We owe you all a debt of gratitude.

There is already an urgent need for consistent low-cost green energy, and that need will only get more pressing. That is why we are enabling GigaWind – the largest, most powerful turbines of today and in the future – to create unprecedented economies of scale, delivering lower cost clean energy and expanding the addressable market for wind power. Learn more about how Radia is investing in the future: https://radia.com/whywind

Did you know? The energy sector must deploy $10 trillion of onshore wind in the coming years to meet energy transition goals, according to BNEF. This is 10 times the amount of wind energy that has been deployed over the past 30 years! This creates a massive opportunity for the aerospace industry to diversify into the energy industry and make a lasting impact on C02 reduction and climate change. Learn more about how Radia is creating these opportunities: https://lnkd.in/gVfYCdsP

Our global executive of marketing and communications Paul Hanna will sit down with the Progress Factors Podcast to chat through WindRunner?, climate change and our work toward a carbon-neutral 2050.

With the rise of AI also comes the rise of data centers that require massive amounts of clean power that must be steady, reliable, high capacity and available 24/7/365. Fortune reports OpenAI wants to build 5GW data centers to meet future needs. Radia's WindRunner? aircraft will deploy GigaWind? - the largest onshore wind turbines of today and tomorrow in more geographies – including those with lower wind speeds, those that are harder to reach, and those that are in less crowded areas, where grid demand, energy costs and transmission costs are all lower. All of this creates opportunities for rapid data center expansion, allowing hyperscalers to meet compute, capacity and energy needs with the lowest cost and highest capacity factor renewable energy that achieves climate targets. https://lnkd.in/e-S2vByw