We’re pretty sure that all of the Vanadium Flow battery makers are jealous as hell of Form Energy, who this week found it fairly straightforward to raise $40 million to take its ideas for a Flow battery straight to product design. This is likely on the back of its influential investor Breakthrough Energy Ventures which boasts Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Bloomberg ventures as founders. Co-founder of Form Mateo Jaramillo says that progress has been so fast that instead of working on the problem for five years then heading for a product, they are ready now. The $40 million brings new investors onboard in the form of Italian oil and gas major Eni and Capricorn Investment and existing investors who…