Tools for the 21st century - Custom Home
Semmes & Co. Builders typically works on remote jobsites where the local utilities haven't run electrical lines, so most of the power for corded tools during construction comes from a site generator. But working with gas generators on sites an hour or more from civilization proved to be problematic, says custom builder Turko Semmes. Project managers noticed drawbacks to gas generators, such as sound levels and maintenance. And at least once every week or two no one in the crew would remember to bring the gas for the generator.
Semmes Promotes Mobile Solar Power - Atascadero News
Witnessing the drawbacks of a gas-powered generator on a job site, Travis Semmes decided to take the necessary steps to reduce air and noise pollution by developing his own mobile solar-powered generators.
Mobile Solar Power - AltEnergyMag
Take electricity from the sun, run it through a charge controller and into a large battery bank. Have an inverter pull that power out of the batteries (when needed) and make it available as pure sinewave current. The trick: do all this inside of an enclosed trailer.
Photovoltaic (PV) systems offer numerous advantages. They reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by cutting back the amount of fossil fuels burned to produce electricity. Buying a PV system for your office or home also minimizes your dependence on utility power, and the savings you accrue over the twenty or more years of a solar panel’s life can be a wise long-term investment.
Mobile Solar Power receives Top-10 Green Building Products Award
Phoenix, AZ, November 12, 2009—BuildingGreen, LLC, publisher of the GreenSpec® Directory and Environmental Building News™, today announced the 2009 Top-10 Green Building Products. This eighth annual award, announced at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference in Phoenix, recognizes the most exciting products drawn from recent additions to the GreenSpec Directory and coverage in Environmental Building News.
“Our selections of the Top-10 Green Building Products represent a wide range of product types in many different application areas,” noted BuildingGreen founder and executive editor Alex Wilson. This year’s list is particularly diverse, ranging from a recycled-content concrete block, to a flywheel energy storage system for data centers, a mobile solar generator for job-site power, and an advanced modular classroom for schools.
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California Polytechnic State University Project
In the summer of 2007, Mobile Solar Power was awarded a bid from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo to build three solar generators. The university’s plan was to use these generators to power high frequency radar installations along the Central Coast near the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
