On the one hand Energy Vault can claim to be a misunderstood company, but on the other, it blazed into the limelight with a $110 million investment from Softbank in 2019, on the back of literature that clearly made it a “product” play, built around a physical, gravitational energy storage system, which today it refers to as “dry pumped hydro,” relying on lifting concrete blocks with pulleys and cranes and lowering them to spin generators. But we have all got it all wrong, and this week we followed up a story last week on a colossal lithium ion battery order from the company for 10 GWh of LFP cells, from Chinese supplier Rept Battero Energy, with a chat to Marco…