# Modern Electron (trading as Modern Hydrogen)

> Energy-hardware company in Bothell, Washington. Founded 2015 by Tony Pan (CEO) and Max Mankin
> (CTO) as a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures to commercialize advanced thermionic energy
> converters — solid-state, direct heat-to-electricity devices. The company now operates publicly
> as Modern Hydrogen, applying behind-the-meter methane pyrolysis to crack natural gas into
> hydrogen and solid carbon before combustion.

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## What this company sells

Physical equipment installed at customer sites, not software. Product lines described on the
company's public site cover industrial heat and steam, on-site power generation, data-center
energy, asphalt products made from the solid carbon by-product, and heavy-duty fleet fueling.

## API surface

**None found.** As of 2026-08-25 there is no public API, no developer portal, no SDK, and no
machine-readable specification of any kind (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, Protobuf, WSDL,
Postman collection or JSON Schema) published by this company. Contract discovery was run against
every host associated with the company and every probe missed. See
`well-known/modern-electron-well-known.yml` for the full probe table with HTTP statuses.

## Domains

- `modernelectron.com` — the legacy brand domain. Issues a blanket HTTP 302 for every path to
  `https://modernhydrogen.com/`. HTTPS on this host did not complete a connection at probe time.
- `modernhydrogen.com` — the current brand domain, hosted on Pantheon (23.185.0.4). At probe time
  it served the Pantheon platform "404 - Unknown site" page for every path including the root, and
  presented a default `*.pantheonsite.io` certificate that does not cover the domain. The Internet
  Archive holds a working 200 snapshot from 2026-06-13, so this is a current site/TLS
  misconfiguration rather than a company that has gone away.

## Public code

- GitHub organization: https://github.com/modernelectron — titled "Modern Hydrogen", 6
  repositories, all forks of open-source scientific-computing projects (WarpX, AMReX, PICMI, GPy)
  used in the company's own R&D. No first-party API, SDK or specification repository.
- No package published under any Modern Electron / Modern Hydrogen name on npm, PyPI, RubyGems,
  crates.io, NuGet, Maven Central or pkg.go.dev.

## Artifacts in this profile

- security/modern-electron-domain-security.yml — probed TLS/DNSSEC/CAA/SPF/DMARC posture
- well-known/modern-electron-well-known.yml — probed /.well-known/* and contract-discovery table

## Name collisions to avoid

This company is unrelated to the Electron desktop application framework (electron/electron), to
Shopify Hydrogen, and to Hydrogen Platform / hydrogenplatform.com (a fintech API company whose
products are confusingly named "Electron", "Nucleus" and "Proton"). None of those APIs belong to
Modern Electron.