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$23.6M to turn roads into power plants. That's the round EWOR fellow Alfons just closed. Less than a year into the EWOR Fellowship. If that sounds like science fiction, that's roughly the reaction he got for six and a half years. Here's the idea. Every day, heavy trucks slow down at port gates, curves, loading zones while bleeding energy into the tarmac. Heat, pressure, vibration. Gone. Alfons wondered: what if the road kept it instead? He dropped out of his physics degree to find out. Defended his inventor rights against two universities along the way. The result is REPS – hydraulic triggers under the road that catch the energy trucks waste when they brake, and turn it into clean electricity. No new land or weather dependency. Just infrastructure that already exists, finally pulling its weight. And it works. Since November, more than 115,000 trucks have crossed the first system at the Port of Hamburg, generating over 6,700 kWh from real traffic. Over 90 ports across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America are now in conversations. Forbes put it best this morning: dirty trucks, clean power. The energy transition has mostly been about building new power. Alfons recovers the power we already throw away. Roads are just the first one. Proud to call him an EWOR fellow. Want to become his peer? Applications are still open, you know where to find us …