I appreciate the comments on SkyBuilt. FYI, we started out in 2002 as three guys with some hammers and an idea, working with a beat up leaky freight container, in the old Arlington, VA bowling alley. Typical start up. Made lots of mistakes. The dream was a better way to deliver clean green energy to help fight AIDS in Africa (you need power in the middle of nowhere to refrigerate medicines), help keep energy prices more reasonable, increase reliability of power for disaster relief, give folks in developing countries a better chance at life with water pumping for sanitation and irrigation, and lots of other uses in the government, commercial and non-profit markets. There were great, commercial, renewable products out there (PV, inverters, turbines) but still hard to rapidly deploy in a standard, drop and operate, expandable, any power in, any power out, system, like the open architecture PC. I had never heard of In-Q-Tel, established to help the CIA and other agencies keep up with new, useful technologies, until recently, but as a start up, we sure are glad they have supported us. As a fellow nerd, I believe we need all the nerd power we can get in energy research, operations, and deployment. It's about helping people and, at its core, it's not about business, profits, agencies, governments, etc., it's really about helping the whole planet that God saw fit to put us on together. Best, Dave Muchow, President, SkyBuilt Power.
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I appreciate the comments on SkyBuilt. FYI, we started out in 2002 as three guys with some hammers and an idea, working with a beat up leaky freight container, in the old Arlington, VA bowling alley. Typical start up. Made lots of mistakes. The dream was a better way to deliver clean green energy to help fight AIDS in Africa (you need power in the middle of nowhere to refrigerate medicines), help keep energy prices more reasonable, increase reliability of power for disaster relief, give folks in developing countries a better chance at life with water pumping for sanitation and irrigation, and lots of other uses in the government, commercial and non-profit markets. There were great, commercial, renewable products out there (PV, inverters, turbines) but still hard to rapidly deploy in a standard, drop and operate, expandable, any power in, any power out, system, like the open architecture PC. I had never heard of In-Q-Tel, established to help the CIA and other agencies keep up with new, useful technologies, until recently, but as a start up, we sure are glad they have supported us. As a fellow nerd, I believe we need all the nerd power we can get in energy research, operations, and deployment. It's about helping people and, at its core, it's not about business, profits, agencies, governments, etc., it's really about helping the whole planet that God saw fit to put us on together. Best, Dave Muchow, President, SkyBuilt Power.