drizzle87

I was quite excited by compressed air storage when Lightsail came into the picture almost 5-7 years ago. Sadly, they could not make the economics work and ended up pivoting into a company that sells carbon fibre tanks for high-pressure storage.

As someone who follows the energy space closely, Lithium ion batteries now have so much momentum and $$$ pumped into them via R&D work, it's going to be hard for competing energy storage technologies to catch up. Flywheel and hydrogen fuel-cell also often come up but I think we're at a point now where batteries are going to take off simply because of their wide area of applicability. With that economy of scale costs will drive down and even more research and $$$ will flow.

Here's how I got started with zero connections: I started writing on a few web dev blogs on using different frameworks, tools etc. Not all of them were popular, but a few became "evergreen" posts and they brought quite a few inbound queries/questions which eventually turned into small consulting gigs, which eventually grew in size and volume.

Elasticsearch should be easily able to handle your scaling needs. Why do you think that it would not? What are your concerns?