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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. They’ve 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. SkyBuilt’s system could be thought of as the Dell of renewable energy, made to mix and match to the customer’s 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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