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so this is why I invented
homework you guessed what
it was apparently a wind turbine
of a new kind indeed since we
arranged to hide the principle
even wind power so imagine that
in every little leaf you saw
there is a generator between
rotations by the wind leaves
turn on their axis and produce
energy
it’s a very simple idea and you
you give a little a representation
what it produces is pretty much
the equivalent of 80% of needs
electric of a family big enough
it’s 9 meters high it can
to supply about fifteen street lamps
led or the equivalent of 16
one thousand five hundred kilometers of recharge
of electric cars
so it’s still a small
central and we will tell you electric
Toussaint hidden in a form
organic and the bandits idea came I
remember it very well it was in
2011
it’s after the events of
fukushima
remember the tsunami the images that
loop everyone
shaken
I can not remain indifferent
and I tell myself we have to stop with these
mega central concentrating means
of production maybe the solution
it would be to imagine small
decentralized local productions to
the scale of a family of precisely
the company and like that I get
convince that we must find a
proximity solution to human size
at the time I’m not an engineer
I am a novelist
I write stories for the
television I am very far from
the scientific universe and it’s this
reason there that gave me the openness of
the idea since when we are not
conditioned by a dogma we have a
free spirit and so I could have
this daring because it’s one that
goes against the windy dogma that
swear by the monoturbine 100 m 2
to big and possibly the
dangerous goods or at least for
birds here are losses online finally
full of secondary phenomena and so
dare to think about the wind turbine peel
to bet on small winds in reverse
laminar winds bet on the
turbulence it was quite a
audacity that a scientist well
conditioning could not have produced if
your first advantage finally at the same
time it’s a limit what is it
the idea has to be there it’s going to be
what the principle of generating
current being not engineer I am
convince that it must be very
simple and sturdy simple so that I
can understand it and beefy because
having done a lot of sailing I know that
the wind can be very destructive and
I do not know I have the intuition of the
dynamo I know nothing about the universe
mechanical game by the slightest idea of
what is a dynamo but I know that
on the bike
my old bikes bottom of the garage the
dynamo is always one while the
bike is what the rotten name so I
take my dynamo I break it with a
hammer because there is no life are
not open and a hammer blow
I can see that in fact nothing
other than a magnet that turns in a
very simple copper winding meirieu
of simplicity and dynamo it’s a
wheel that turns on a rim and that
light the little loupiote it’s
such a simple idea
khaled inspiring and so I’m leaving with
this intuition there and
do you figure that after five years of r & d
on nantes strong generator of
several patents that certainly
a lot of power electronics
microprocessor regulation it
are a lot of electrical discomfort had
marked it’s still the same
principle prevailing at Nimes
investigators in a leather winding
like what to believe in his
intuitions I always stay and we
problem because I now I
go where I do not know how to do it and
by chance I come from a family that
has a lot of engineers some
famous in my uncle henric is known
for designing the program of
concorde is a crack in turbulence
it’s the other childhood hero we’ve seen
born the plane because we talk about
and we saw the design of the delta we have
saw the nose that lean products
like that he had invented the
biomimicry before the time so
maybe it’s a source
of inspiration where I have been feeding
science like that without knowing it
but it’s up to him I think winter that
I turn to validate the first
calculations that I had done from
two knowledge click on the internet
and in radio on authority makes it fall
the sentence not happy we rig I
could maybe walk but finally
I imagine that if you manage to go out in
box per leaf given their size
we can think that we will not have more
of trees is perfect for a goal of
3000 3500 watts is a minimum
you would have to work 500
leaves it’s going to be unmanageable
the rat of cases everywhere connectivity
there are 3500 wind turbines there is
no economic model possible
does not preclude for me he had said that’s
not stupid your thing this step he
swallowed a validation and therefore the
part tinkering a proto to
from a small engine that I find
on a trade takes that of the engine
printers that I pay in
generator g6 there is a mud of
gutter game to make 2-2 not the
upset
and I’m going on my balcony I’m kissing you
I collect 1 watt exactly this
what henri said from there
attitudes or maybe we say
nice but as it says it’s
unmanageable so lets go on to
something else
or we roll up our sleeves and
bret of grounds made watts
it is 2 we pass right past the
path that I took and
obviously it’s not all alone or
in this day nono first proto
industrialists have we come here business
nine times you have a jump finally 9 watts a
very very far from the day it takes
a lot more here from ts we go to 35
watts of months and months of work
we go to 65 days improves the
model but we’re not there yet
time goes on you have to convince yourself
that we must continue to achieve this
economic model objective
and we can think that I had put on
my office a motto a bit for
translate the movement I give it to you
try again missed again missed better
and that’s what we were doing a sentence
of samuel beckett like what I was staying
a literary and hard-working
of proto iterations in pro tour on
can produce 100 watts per sheet
so so dividing by 100 the number
generators we come to the model
economic and all that so this fact in
finding money I jumped a
step but it’s okay I repeat it
now is that before we get to
600 watts I had to surround myself with
talent so I recruited some
engineers with a first
part of the investment by the
own funds and partly with a
investor that I convinced of
put a hundred thousand euros just on the
potential of the idi it’s going to be the
first money I was able to recruit
the very first engineers is
arrived at the path that will come to tell
prototypes that led to his rank
perfect but
first will rise from the start up when we
created if that obstinacy he
have to put every day every
days beyond 100 thousand euros of
departure it is this bet on
collective intelligence keep the
talents so that he does not go elsewhere
this year certainly the gran torino 20 and
finally arm yourself with patience but of course
essangui the red quickly run out
must also know how to finance the
course that lasts 4 to 5 years when one is
in industrial innovation that
that was our case and then there is no
no secret either you have money
of family either you appeal to
capital risk or type of investors
business angels it is or still a
little crowdfunding funding
participatory that works very well
now in capital too and me
I made a mix of both I lifted it
about four years 3 million euros
of which 2 million 4.1 capital with this
money we could do a whole course
which led to filing a fortnight
inventions and to multiply
prototypes including a pre-series we
planted in late 2015 early 2016
a pre-production in France in Switzerland in
germany dozens of trees whose
two that you saw at Cape 21 which
were seen by the 195 nation there he
spent an event with a colossal
go to the scale of the world since we
received full command everyone
understood everyone adhered to it
it was time to go
at top speed if the time to
market that requires you to get out of
products whose rivers
mature it was good and so I
recruits sales people a supply chain
for industrialization
we drove the offices I launch the
commercial offers are looking at
suppliers and we manufacture we start
and in parallel of his to finance I
throws anyway I hired a
Objective 5 capital increase
million from the usual three months
it takes six months after
avi – to raise funds from this
importance and there we are so in
confidence that carried by the enthusiast
general
we say we’ll get there and in addition
I have in my team a former minister
the economy that has joined us in
capital which I say no problem on
will find them the 5 million by this
movement describes well the strength of the
start up and by mounting their
vulnerability
we are sure of a mixture of
of unconsciousness and especially in the evening
some would say of megalomania who
creates this positive dynamic but in
same time a kind of blind force
which prevents you from perceiving all
the difficulties that points in the
touch of humor or hear from
weak signals for what it was
our case the weak signals this is the
perseverance of time you figure them
one hundred thousand euros of departure had allowed
to do a year with 4 5 engineer the
same hundred thousand euros
we were doing a month so before that goes
very very quickly that money by very
very quickly
there is no turnover so
must be financed from the outside and when
the money does not arrive is the accident
it’s under a stranger you’ll say but
how is it
with all these good auspices this
full order book how does that
can this happen with the 66
thousand companies in France a year to whom
it happens so I’m not
escaped the queen I blame myself for
lack of vigilance
and this takes the opportunity to
remember a few the first is
of course to make sure
to manage this time it’s harder
especially when in the end the your own
support your shareholders to employees
start to doubt you
qualities of innovator that we rented
all of a sudden you are
blamed as possibly responsible
difficulties and finally this time it’s
everyday
convince investors every
days reassured teams and at the same time
time of the thrusts by the funds
investment that we meet for
sign commercial offers for
show that the market deeper than
the mere appearance or excitement that
for example cap 21 has sparked and
to have a deep market what is it
pass signed commercial offers
with america australia japan
that’s what we do is a moment
we spent
finally it takes so much money for
to make everything you sell when you
is in fraudulent limit situation in
the law of commerce says it sell is
something that we are not able to
to do with and it’s a crime it’s a
scam so I took the path of
court protection that opened
a six-month observation period
with a fool’s bargain because
during this period we do not have the
right to make 1 euro of debt and
we head arrived with the
urssaf raise and that was the trick
liquidation and the overnight
wanted nothing more everything you have
created in five years all this
positive energy this value its
patents all that is finished the office the
evening but you have to clear all the
contracts stop it’s pretty violent
it is said that many
suicides divorce or depression follow
the liquidations
rest assured I say that to my wife who
in the room
rappaz of 10:30 of depression because
that in fact one is carried by some
more powerful thing and who I think
that there is to do with the origin of
the idea then it is inspired from
living an observation the nature everything
who was born from the living pushed erroneously
if the soil is good I
think the potting soil the tree before is very
well it has been demonstrated many times and
it is a solution that is expected
everywhere in the world so there is no
doubt that we will overcome this episode and
that the forms expectations of
thousands of people who trusted
to this solution that are waiting for him who
even prefer their garden for
put a tree I tell him would not be
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