aid: modern-electron
name: Modern Electron
description: >-
  Modern Electron is a Bothell, Washington energy-hardware company founded in 2015 by Tony Pan (CEO)
  and Max Mankin (CTO) as a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures. It was built to commercialize advanced
  thermionic energy converters — solid-state, direct heat-to-electricity devices intended to add
  on-site generation to combustion and thermal equipment. The company now operates publicly as Modern
  Hydrogen, applying methane pyrolysis behind the meter to crack natural gas into hydrogen and solid
  carbon before combustion, for industrial heat and steam, on-site power, data-center energy, asphalt
  products and heavy-duty fleet fueling. The product is physical equipment installed at customer
  sites; Modern Electron / Modern Hydrogen operates no developer program, publishes no public API,
  SDK or machine-readable specification, and its public GitHub organization holds only forks of
  open-source scientific-computing projects (WarpX, AMReX, PICMI, GPy) used in its own R&D.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/modern-electron/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-25'
modified: '2026-08-25'
tags:
- Company
- Energy
- Hydrogen
- Clean Energy
- Hardware
- Manufacturing
- Climate Tech
- Thermionics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/modern-electron-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://modernhydrogen.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/modernelectron
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/modern-electron-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-25'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: >-
    Modern Electron (now trading as Modern Hydrogen) sells physical energy hardware —
    thermionic converters and behind-the-meter methane-pyrolysis units installed at
    customer sites — and runs no developer program; its brand domain modernelectron.com
    302s every path to modernhydrogen.com, which at probe time answered the Pantheon
    platform "404 - Unknown site" for the site root itself behind a default
    *.pantheonsite.io certificate that does not cover the domain.
  evidence:
  - url: http://modernelectron.com/
    status: 302
  - url: https://modernhydrogen.com/
    status: 404
  - url: https://modernhydrogen.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://modernhydrogen.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://github.com/modernelectron
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-25'