When the generator stops running because it is out of fuel, the school in a mountain village in the Himalayas has to move outdoors. Generators are noisy and dirty and produce some of the most expensive electricity in the world, at around $1 per kilowatt-hour. Why do these schools not use solar battery systems? ...
Last week, Silicon Valley start-up Lunar emerged from stealth mode, announcing that it has collected USD 300 million in financing over the past two years. The company is reportedly working on an "end-to-end home battery system which will be a combination of battery modules, power electronics and software, all designed from the ground up, rather than the cobbled-together systems common today," ...
YouSolar was founded on the vision to build the world’s most advance solar nano-grids. A company called eIQ Energy seemed to have key technology to help realize this vision. It had developed a revolutionary DC-DC micro-converter that steps each panel's electric potential (voltage) to 380 V DC, an emerging electrical standard now used in server farms and electric vehicles. Gene Krzywinski was its inventor. ...
Our civilization has relied on a stable climate for animal husbandry and agriculture for thousands of years. There was a certain predictability in the weather. But herding and farming are just domesticated nature. Wildlife also needs a stable climate. Even the simplest experiment will show that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere ...
During a speech to Apple team members on 23 September 1997, shortly after returning to Apple, Steve Jobs explained and introduced the “Think Different” marketing campaign that included the famous and iconic video “Here’s to the Crazy Ones.” The video features visionaries, from Albert Einstein and Buckminster Fuller to John Lennon and Martin Luther King Jr. ...
Last week, YouSolar installed its largest residential PowerBloc® yet. It will power a gorgeous new home in Calistoga, CA. It has 11.1 kW solar, 51 kWh of energy storage, and dual 18 kW inverters for 36 kW of AC power to the house. This PowerBloc features our all-new PowerLink™ Module, which allows controlling and reading data from multiple inverters and transfer switches. ...
Bob Rutter is YouSolar’s Chief Technology Officer and a member of our board of directors. Three things are non-negotiable in Bob's life: Lunch, flying to lunch every other week, and elegant and safe electronics. Watching Bob work on the PowerBloc is to watch playfulness and perfection ...
Skills and knowledge are essential, but you also need imagination to create a new product. You have to dream – and dream big. We were dreaming big when we built the first PowerBloc in Big Sur in the summer of 2019. When we launched our first crowdfunding campaign in 2020, you believed in our dream. Our campaign reached $ 1 million and was oversubscribed. ...
On Friday, we introduced the new POWER-LINK™ module. What is POWER-LINK, and why is it another big step for YouSolar? As you may recall, all modules or bloc's in the PowerBloc connect in parallel. Therefore, you can add modules just like LEGO blocks. You can add more batteries or more solar power, for example. Now you can also add more than one inverter. ...
YouSolar Founder and CEO, Arnold Leitner volunteered in wildlife conservation as a teenager, working with many species, including peregrine falcons and amphibians. He designed one of Germany’s first super-efficient passive houses, which his family built in 1991. Arnold later moved to the United States to get his doctorate in physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During his experimental research ...
