Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Solar Microgrid’

Green Builders: Mobile Solar Power Systems are ready to rent!

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Even as the economy tries to decide whether to move upward, some number of construction projects are coming out of the ground here in California. And to power this new construction, Pure Power is offering Mobile Solar Power Systems on a rental basis. If you are planning or operating a construction job site and want to use solar, the clean renewable power source, please contact Pure Power or call us at (310) 569-9151.

WHY USE SOLAR IN CONSTRUCTION? 

Not only do Pure Power’s solar generators produce enough pure, clean, quiet power to run a typical job site, but there are real economic and health benefits to using solar:

1) Economics

Imagine having to continually purchase fuel for your generator – $3.50 or so a gallon, day after day. And imagine paying a guy to go get the fuel, and fill it – that’s what, $50 a trip – plus productivity lost while he’s making the trip? And thenpaying another guy to lubricate and tune up the generator…. with a solar generator, none of these costs occur (and the rental rate is competitive with a diesel generator).

2) Health

A generator is a generator, right? Not really! Let’s start with the immediate impacts of a diesel generator: NOISE. A typical diesel generator produces about 100 decibels of noise -workers, managers, neighbors – - everyone gets annoyed (at best), and has actual physical reactions at worst (see link)

How about DIESEL EXHAUST? The EPA says that diesel exhaust contains 40 carcinogenic compounds. Um, anyone want to breathe those all day?

Diesel also comes with a delivery mechanism for those cancer-causing compounds – they latch onto diesel soot (particulate matter), and can be breathed deeply into sensitive lung tissue. Perhaps this is why the California Air Resources Board put this press release on its home page)

THE BIG PICTURE: GLOBAL IMPACTS OF DIESEL GENERATORS

A typical diesel generator creates over 22 lbs. of carbon dioxide for every gallon of fuel used. That’s not so much a local impact as a global one – do you want your jobsite to be a climate change contributor?

Mother Nature Network: The solar-powered dream world of ‘Inception’

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Karl Burkart posted a great story about Inception (the epic thriller by Christopher Nolan starring Leo DiCaprio) and Inception the mobile solar power story.

Says Burkart: “The mind-blowing dream sequences of “Inception” probably left you wondering how in the world the film’s producers pulled it off. But the question of how they powered such feats of cinematic megawattage may not have come to mind. The answer will surprise you … the sun!”

Read the rest of this great post here.


Zap2It: Leonardo DiCaprio plants ‘Inception’ solar movie power idea

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

From the website Zap2It: Leonardo DiCaprio posted a link on his Facebook page to an Ecorazzie item about the solar panels used on his new hit film, “Inception.”

So in essence the environmental activist actor has used the film’s thesis — that an idea is the most virulent and powerful tool — to plant the idea about the future of green movie-making.”

Read the whole story here.

Solar Feeds: Pure Power completes 5th solar base camp

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Solar Feeds has picked up our story about our work in feature films, with the references to our work in all entertainment, events, military, and ah, yes, the “frosty” project…

NY Times: Save fuel, save lives

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Nobel prize winning columnist Thomas Friedman blogged this week about the predictable results of dependence on fossil fuels and poorly insulated structures: death and destruction. (By inference, one could add that use of the military-grade Mobile Solar Microgrid, such as the one developed by Pure Power, could help reduce this threat).

Making our country more energy efficient is not some green feel-good thing. Retired Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson, who was Gen. David Petraeus’s senior logistician in Iraq, e-mailed to say that “over 1,000 Americans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan hauling fuel to air-condition tents and buildings. If our military would simply insulate their structures, it would save billions of dollars and, more importantly, save lives of truck drivers and escorts. … And will take lots of big fuel trucks (a k a Taliban Targets) off the road, expediting the end of the conflict.”

Pure Power for Tesla

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Mobile Solar Power System… Mobile Solar Power System… Mobile Solar Charging Station!

Pure Power for Tesla

We’ve been saying for a long time that there’s a natural synergy with electric or hybrid vehicles and our Mobile Solar Power System.

Last month we were proud to have provided Systems to recharge 15 Plug-In Prius(R) at a Toyota event in Orange County, California.

Here, we provided a System that’s charging Tesla’s in Seattle.

This is just one of the myriad ways users are deploying Mobile Solar Power Systems today.

Next up: the Mobile Solar Microgrid.