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SkyBuilt Providing Plug-n-Play Renewable Power
Company specializes in portable, modular, rapidly-deployable renewable energy systems, especially for the military and for cell tower installations, now has the world's first hybrid power station in an airline-checkable suitcase.
by Sterling
D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2009
On Monday, I interviewed
David Muchow, CEO of SkyBuilt
Power, a company that specializes in portable, modular, rapidly-deployable renewable energy systems, especially for the military
and Homeland Security, as well as for remote applications like cell tower installations.
Theyve been listed in our Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies for a couple of years.
This is actually the second time Dave was on the show, the first having been in January of 2007.
SkyBuilts system could be thought of as the Dell of renewable energy, made to mix and match to the customers satisfaction through an array of plug-and-play modules.
The computer comparison is actually quite good. The various energy devices
could be thought of as hardware that is plugged into a motherboard, which is the
controlling element of the system. The frame housing and supporting these
elements is like the computer tower.
In addition to the cargo container module for easy packaging, shipping and
deployment, SkyBuilt also has a trailer module that can be set up in 45
minutes. They've also added a skid-based module that can be loaded onto
the back of a pickup truck.
Recently they added to their product line the world's first hybrid power station in
a suitcase that can be checked in as air travel luggage.
Into each of these platforms can be added solar, wind, fuel cells, batteries,
back-up generators, micro turbines to harness flowing water, and any other form
of renewable energy that the company can plug in.
They have hundreds of patent claims worldwide (each patent contains numerous
claims).
I was fascinated by the solar blanket Dave described: a solar collector embedded
on a canvas surface. Most of the SkyBuilt systems need to be very robust as the
environments they are being used in are extremely harsh -- such as the top of a mountain for a cell tower.
And many of them are autonomous units, able to be monitored remotely, with no
need for on-site manning, refueling, or maintenance during inclement seasons.
To get a system designed for a client, SkyBuilt starts with the questions: 1) how much power they need, 2) where
it will be deployed, 3) what renewable resources are available there; and they
can then plan a system for that customer. They can provide anything from
400 Watts to tens of thousands of Watts. And they don't need tax credits to be
competitive. They are also involved in areas of health, mobile clinics, disaster
relief, and waste water applications. They presently don't market to residential applications.
SkyBuilt has been rapidly growing their revenues, with no
slowdown even in the present difficult economy.
Dave said he is
approached once a day on average by an inventor who has some technology or
idea about how to generate usable power from nature; but very few of those are
developed to a point that he can implement them. He follows our daily Free
Energy News, and appreciates that source, given the pre-screening our
network does to try to limit our coverage to working devices.
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Page composed by Sterling
D. Allan Feb. 11, 2009
Last updated February 20, 2009
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