Ivan Toma

Founder & CEO, RAVERK | Building solar-thermal water infrastructure | Engineering design, prototype assembly and outdoor validation.

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

RAVERK is focused on one milestone: an integrated, instrumented physical prototype. The preliminary ALPHA-1 target of 12–23 m³/day is an engineering target, not measured field performance. Next: outdoor validation. https://t.co/flnJr4AiOh

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

Everything seems to be spinning out of control with the Earth's climate.

Today, Science confirmed in corals that Super El Niño is worst in 2,000 years due to climate change.

+ Massive glacial collapse buried Nepal. Wildfires across the planet, and crushing heat domes.

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

A credible deep-tech company must separate calculated targets, assumptions and measured results. #DeepTech #Validation #Engineering

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

Which hidden water cost is most underestimated?

We are developing RAVERK openly and would value informed perspectives. #WaterSecurity #Infrastructure #Innovation

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

RAVERK is looking for manufacturing advice: copper fabrication, thermal insulation, vacuum equipment, sensors and container integration. If your team has built real thermal or water hardware, we would value a conversation. https://t.co/flnJr4AQDP

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

This NASA visualization shows the CO2 emitted into the earth's atmosphere + clarifies who is responsible for the climate crisis: we, the Global North.

There is not time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

Remote sites often pay for water through transport, energy, delay and operational risk—not only through the invoice. #WaterSecurity #Infrastructure #Innovation

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

Where does unreliable water create the greatest operational cost today?

We are developing RAVERK openly and would value informed perspectives. #WaterTech #ClimateTech #RAVERK

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

Freshwater reliability is becoming an infrastructure question, not only an environmental one. #WaterTech #ClimateTech #RAVERK

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

The next step could be turning concentrated solar energy directly into something equally essential: fresh water. At RAVERK, we’re developing ALPHA-1 — a mobile system designed to use concentrated solar thermal energy for desalination, with thermal storage and salt recovery. We’re currently looking for strategic partners to build and validate our full-scale prototype. Perhaps one day RAVERK and Masdar can build something meaningful together.

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

The world needs Avenues like this in all Cities..

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

“We are creating the conditions under which billions of humans will starve to death so that a minority can keep on using data centres”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

We are in a climate emergency.

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

Everyone talks about batteries when we discuss energy storage.

But electricity is not the only thing we can store.

If your industrial process ultimately needs heat, converting electricity → battery → electricity → heat may not always be the smartest route.

Sometimes the better question is:

Why not store the heat itself?

This is one of the engineering ideas I find most interesting about concentrated solar thermal systems.

Capture sunlight → concentrate it → store thermal energy → use it when the process actually needs it.

☀️ → 🔥 → 🏭

Energy storage doesn’t always have to look like a battery.

#EnergyStorage #CSP #Engineering #CleanTech

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I am sick and tired of people who mock those who care about the planet.

- Clean air matters.
- Living forests matter.
- Healthy oceans matter.
- Safe drinking water matters.
- Biodiversity matters.
- A stable climate matters.

This should not be controversial

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

One useful introduction can save a hardware startup months. RAVERK would value contacts at testing labs, copper and vacuum-equipment manufacturers, climate-tech funds, grant programmes and water operators. Know someone we should meet? Please tag them or message us. https://t.co/pPBzSy0bbe

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

I need to walk more…

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

@craigweiss

[Ivan Toma @FounderRAVERK]

I find myself thinking about strange things more and more often.
Humanity has acquired one of the most powerful intellectual tools in its history.
A tool that enables an engineer to calculate a system, a programmer to write code, a scientist to analyze data, and an entrepreneur to test hypotheses—and allows someone without that specialized team to handle volumes of information that previously required extensive expertise.
And what was the first thing we started doing with it?

Selling.
Generating leads.
Writing cold emails.
Automating sales funnels.
Creating advertisements.
Churning out even more content.
Persuading even more people to buy even more things.

I’m not against sales. There is no business without sales. And without business, many technologies would never leave the lab.
But I’ve come to realize the scale of the missed opportunity.
We now have a tool that has helped an inventor build a stronger department.
So why not use it to actually invent?

To design a new machine.
To rethink an old industrial proces
To seek new ways of generating and storing energy
To create new materials.

To solve problems related to water, food, energy, the environment, transportation, medicine, and space exploration.

So that a person who yesterday had nothing but an idea and a laptop can today solve a problem they previously couldn't even begin to tackle.
Of course, AI won’t replace the laboratory.

It won’t replace the machine tool.
It won’t replace the physical experiment.
It won’t replace the engineer who has to assemble the machine and see what happens when it runs for the first time.

But it can vastly enhance the capabilities of the person doing all that work.
And that, it seems to me, is where the real revolution lies.
Not AI *instead* of the human.
AI *alongside* the human who is trying to create something that didn't exist yesterday.
I’d like to see less talk about how to use AI to boost sales by another 20%.

And much more of this:

"I have a crazy idea. Before, I didn't have the resources to even test it." "Now, let’s give it a try."
Don’t limit AI’s transformation to just the marketplace.
Make it your engineer, researcher, critic, analyst, teacher, and second brain.
Don’t use it merely to profit from the world as it exists.

Use it to build the next one.