The name Babcock and Wilcox is one of those global business names that everyone think’s they’ve heard of, but can you remember what they do? Well the original Babcock and Wilcox was built in the US around the invention of a safe boiler technology, and the associated UK operation is now totally separate business renamed Babcock International and although it sprang from the US operation, it now has completely different products and its own history. As we say, it began life trying to make steam boilers safe in 1867, produced boilers for the US military including on submarines, and then went on to design nuclear boilers and now well over 100 years later it is trying to make Energy Storage…