Tuesday, July 07, 2015
How Elon Musk Could Help You Save Money on Your Utility Bill | PROFITguide.com
How Elon Musk Could Help You Save Money on Your Utility Bill | PROFITguide.com
While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure. If products like Powerwall catch on, the necessary restructuring of the electrical grid will create opportunities and demand new expertise well beyond designing and manufacturing batteries. For example, AES Energy Storage in the U.S. now sells electrical storage the way server farms sell data warehousing. Stem, a California startup, helps large energy users such as hotels finance their own battery arrays. “There’s a whole industry developing here that is all brand new,” Brown says. “There’s a whole bunch of spinoff businesses that are going to start popping up.”
While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure. If products like Powerwall catch on, the necessary restructuring of the electrical grid will create opportunities and demand new expertise well beyond designing and manufacturing batteries. For example, AES Energy Storage in the U.S. now sells electrical storage the way server farms sell data warehousing. Stem, a California startup, helps large energy users such as hotels finance their own battery arrays. “There’s a whole industry developing here that is all brand new,” Brown says. “There’s a whole bunch of spinoff businesses that are going to start popping up.”
Monday, July 06, 2015
"Nemo's Garden" grows terrestrial crops underwater - Images
"Nemo's Garden" grows terrestrial crops underwater - Images
The stand for the region of Liguria at the Milan 2015 Expofeatures a project as bizarre-sounding as it is intriguing: an attempt to grow crops underwater, inside air-filled biospheres. It's part of an effort that could prove a low-cost, low-energy solution to grow food in parts of the world where this was not previously possible.
good thinking
The stand for the region of Liguria at the Milan 2015 Expofeatures a project as bizarre-sounding as it is intriguing: an attempt to grow crops underwater, inside air-filled biospheres. It's part of an effort that could prove a low-cost, low-energy solution to grow food in parts of the world where this was not previously possible.
good thinking
X-Tainer shipping container expands into a giant pavilion - Images
Endless possibilities ? Many fast and cost effective uses uses? Good thinking .
X-Tainer shipping container expands into a giant pavilion - Images
X-Tainer shipping container expands into a giant pavilion - Images
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