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…
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Solar Feeds: Pure Power completes 5th solar base camp
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Pure Power completes 5th solar base camp
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Pure Power has just completed work on our 5th feature film, providing clean solar power to the base camp of Steve Carrell’s latest feature film project. Principal photography wrapped recently, and now we’re in discussion to provide Mobile Solar Power Systems to our 6th feature.
The entertainment business is really going the extra yard to green up their productions and operations, and we’ve been fortunate to have contributed to that development.
Stay tuned for more feature film news, along with TV series (last season we provided solar power to Criminal Minds – there are more in the works); rock concerts like Sasquatch; events like the ESPY Awards and LA Marathon; an “artsy” project; a “microgrid” project and a “frosty” project that are making our lives really interesting.
DiCaprio speaks about Mobile Solar in the Philippine Inquirer
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Leo DiCaprio shows his true environmental colors in an interview with the Philippine Inquirer recently. This is the article that was quoted in Ecorazzi.
Nice to see how down to earth he is, despite his talent a movie star wattage.
And also how focused he is on meaningful issues such as saving tigers and cleaning the atmosphere through use of mobile solar generators (self-serving comment alert: they’re our Systems) on Inception.
Read the Leo DiCaprio article here
Ecorazzi: DiCaprio Brought Solar Power To ‘Inception’ Set
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Ecorazzi is our favorite source for green gossip and information about what the entertainment industry – and its biggest stars – are doing for the environment.
Today, Michael d’Estries posted a story about the worlds’ largest Mobile Solar Power System which was used on Inception – the red hot Warner Bros. film, starring red-hotter Leo DiCaprio and Marion Cottilard. 
DiCaprio is as dialed in to environmental issues as almost anyone on the planet.
After a conversation with Warner Bros. President Alan Horn, Leo helped bring Mobile Solar Power front and center in powering the base camp of Inception when it was shooting in LA late last summer. Read the post here.
Homeless teens check out Pure Power at Warner Bros.
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Last month a group of homeless teens who live at an LA Family Housing family shelter were introduced to Pure Power and the world’s most powerful Mobile Solar Power System. It was one of those moments where, one hopes, the concept of renewable energy was made real in young people’s lives.
The visit was part of “Hollywood 101″, a 10-week course I developed specially for LA Family Housing to introduce middle and high school kids to potential careers in Hollywood. On their field trip to Warner Bros., the kids were able to meet and talk with Jonny Romano, Manager of Sustainable Production, who told them about the many things Warner Bros. is doing to reduce the environmental impact of its feature films.
You might think that would have been “less than interesting” to a group of homeless teens, but it’s times like these when one realizes that kids this age are the hope for the planet.
One might think that these kids had every reason not to care about externalities like recycling and climate change – they’ve got more pressing concerns, right? – But they get this stuff intuitively and they act on it. They get recycling, they get “carbon neutrality”, and they get solar power. When Romano was speaking, you could have heard a pin drop (and since the “48″ was running and not a diesel generator, you really could have heard it…)
Pure Power’s Mark Garrett was incredibly generous with his time, and spent over an hour sharing his knowledge and life experience with the kids. One said, “Man, I want to do what he does. That looks so cool!”
Mark Garrett
Seeing the one-of-a-kind 48-foot Solar System powering the base camp of the new Steve Carrell production, on the lot at Warner Bros., was a special experience for these kids, who have so many challenges. Warner does a lot in this community, and here was a great example.
Pure Power favorite Solar Movies
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Pure Power has just completed providing solar power on our FIFTH FEATURE FILM for a major Hollywood studio, and before we start on number 5 and beyond, we’d like to review our favorite feature films that have used renewable energy as part of the power mix. Today’s Pure Power Solar Film pick is JONAH HEX.
Based on the DC Comics classic, starring Josh Brolin as Johan Hex, “a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort who can track anyone… and anything.” Highly stylized with lots of fast-action, this film also featured Megan Fox, John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender.
Pure Power’s role with this film was to provide a portion of the base camp’s power requirements. We developed an advanced Mobile Solar Power System (for its time), the S10, built a pair and delivered them to New Orleans. It was the second time, to our knowledge, that Mobile Solar Power had be brought to a feature film set.
Coming soon: Pure Power’s first feature film project.
Pure Power for Tesla
Monday, July 19th, 2010Mobile 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.
Mother Nature Networks salutes the World’s Largest Mobile Solar Power System
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Check out the article here
A Hybrid Mobile Solar Power System for Hollywood Lights
Monday, June 28th, 2010Major events in the Pacific Northwest are experiencing the Hybrid Mobile Solar Power System(TM) through our friends at Hollywood Lights (hollywoodlights.biz). 
Their first solar event of the summer, Sasquatch, was held in the beautiful Gorge area east of Seattle. The Hybrid was part of the Honda Hybrid Solar Stage. We’ll cover that event in more detail in a later post.
This is the first Mobile Solar Power System to spend significant time in the Pacific Northwest – though last year we helped provide power at the Portland WakeJam.
Toyota’s new plug-in Prius gets Pure PowerD
Monday, June 21st, 2010We were proud to support IgnitedUSA last week in providing pure power to a fleet of 15 new plug-in Prius vehicles for Toyota.
The event, held under seasonably overcast Southern California skies (aka “June Gloom”) required each Hybrid S10 Mobile Solar Power Systems to recharge 5 Prius for fleet managers to view, assess and test-drive, over a period of 2 days.
Did we say Overcast? Not so fast: what seems to most to be overcast skies looks positively bright to a solar panel, and our Hybrid S10s calmly and quietly recharged the Prius (Priuses? Prii?) easy-as-you-please.
Pure Power sent a driver/operator skilled in both the navigational and power-providing arts to ensure that all the vehicles were properly charged and ready to go. Mission accomplished – and wouldn’t you agree, there’s something poetic about the vision of 15 Prius cars being charged with pure solar power?
~ IgnitedUSA, by the way, is a marketing innovations agency chock full of big brain rock stars – check them out here http://www.ignitedusa.com ~
Toyota, when you hold your next plug-in Prius rally, we are expecting a call for more pure power.