Entrepreneur Inna Braverman’s career in 360° VR | The Female Planet | Episode 2

Entrepreneur Inna Braverman’s career in 360° VR | The Female Planet | Episode 2

Posted on by Jason Robles


[MUSIC PLAYING] INNA BRAVERMAN: I always
felt like life has given me a second chance, and I should
do something good with it. Only two weeks after I was born,
the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded. It created huge health
problems in the region. One day, I was in my crib
and just stopped breathing. I was clinically dead. Luckily, my mom gave me
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which saved my life. I grew up in a small
town called Akko. Akko was pretty boring. There were no shopping malls
or cinemas so most of my time was spent on the beach. Later in life, I found out
two very important things. The first is that
wave energy can produce twice the
amount of electricity that the world produces now. The second thing
was that one out of eight people in the
world are currently dying premature death as a
direct result of pollution. I thought to myself,
definitely the seas and the oceans
around us could be the solution for that problem. One day, I was invited
to a pool party. A pool party is
definitely not the place to do business or
work on patents. But there I was sitting in
the pool, drinking cocktails, and next to me was
a guy named David. So I asked him,
what’s your passion? He said, wave energy. David and I were
not engineers and so couldn’t make
sketches, blueprints, or calculations that are
needed in order to make an idea into reality. So we hired engineers that could
do the practical design work. My passion and belief really
helped overcome many obstacles and persuade the right people. It sounds crazy, but that
moment was the beginning of our company, Eco Wave Power. And here I am, six years later,
in the first wave energy power station in Europe operating
here in Gibraltar. In operation mode, the
floaters are going up and down, pushing the hydro
cylinders, which transmit hydraulic
fluid through the pipes into the machinery room. So here we are in Eco Wave
Power’s land-located machinery room. The hydraulic fluid
from the hydro cylinders is transferred into
land-located accumulators. Inside the
accumulators, a pressure has been created, which is used
to turn the hydro motor, which turns the generator that
sends clean electricity into the Gibraltar grid. The whole system is controlled
by smart automation system, which makes sure that
the electricity is being sent in a stable manner. Here we can see around me
operating the automation system. The woman you see
in front of you today is very different
to the one that started the company six years ago. You know the feeling when
you know all the answers but no one is asking you? They directed all their
questions only to David. So I kept answering their
questions until, after a while, they realized, hey, this girl
knows what she’s talking about. Nowadays, I feel much
more confident presenting to high-ranking businessmen
and government officials. My biggest passion
is to also bring it to developing countries,
because they have the greatest need for energy. 70% of sub-Saharan Africa
isn’t connected to any source of electricity, although
the continent is surrounded by a huge coastline. Imagine the energy
we could generate with those waves
and the lives we could change if we
bring electricity there. I had a great idea. But I had no way of
making it come into life. I didn’t have
engineering knowledge. I didn’t have the contacts. I didn’t have the money. Still, I decided to
pursue my passion, because passion is the greatest
renewable energy source. I still have big dreams
for Eco Wave Power. I’m excited to be a
partner in this sector and actually spread wave
power all over the world. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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73 thoughts on “Entrepreneur Inna Braverman’s career in 360° VR | The Female Planet | Episode 2”

  10. I don't understand where you got the money for such a large investment I mean were talking designs from scratch, prototyping, testing, not to mention salaries for all the technicians an engineers, an then final installation that power plant musta come at a hefty price, where in the world did you get what I would assume to be 10's of millions of dollars???? I feel like millions of people in the United states get less opportunities then you appear to have gotton

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  11. I'm jus asking cuz I too have had similar passions, I've wanted to implement wave power since 2010 among many other harnessing ideas, but no matter where I looked it seemed the prospect of getting such an endeavor accomplished jus appeared out of reach, if you have something like this achieved I have many other ideas I would wish to discuss, jus as soon as I hear back from the patent office so I know my ideas will be protected

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  19. From what I saw, the machinery cost will run into thousands upon thousands of dollars.  Will it be worth it.

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  61. Where did the money to hire the engineers and to build all of the equipment in the "power collection room" come from?

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