There has been excitement about using batteries in electric vehicles for energy storage for the grid or homes for years, referred to as vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home integration. Let us focus on vehicle-to-home.
The 27th climate summit began this week in Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea. United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres, a trained electrical engineer and physicist, opened the meeting by saying: “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.”
One of the reasons for the success of platforms like StartEngine is the rise of impact investing, which StartEngine discusses in a great blog post “Investing in a Better World.” More and more people want to make a positive difference in the world with their investments. In fact, we must.
“Less than a decade ago, the world that lay ahead seemed even more disastrous than the one we’ve just taken a tour of; truly apocalyptic scenarios for all of humanity seemed plausible. Today we are faced with something different: climate upheaval big enough to terrify and intimidate and yet open-ended enough to be wrangled and even managed by politics and human design, as well.”
“Persistent, traumatic grief can cause us to cycle (sometimes quickly) through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance." These stages are humans’ attempts to process change and protect ourselves while we adapt to a new reality,” writes the University of Washington on its help page, The Stages of Grief: Accepting the Unacceptable.
Climate change is the biggest challenge of our generation. Combating it is also the economic opportunity of our lifetime. In the coming decades, we will have to reinvent almost everything that enables our comfortable modern lives – from heating to food production to transportation to industrialized processes like cement and steelmaking. This will not only create a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable world. It will also generate tremendous profits for those who embrace this enormous transition now and create the solutions for the all-renewable energy future.
At YouSolar, we are building solar nano-grids for affluent customers in Napa Valley, Big Sur and Key West. Those are significant projects and prove that we can deliver solutions that work. But we have much loftier goals. We want to transform the lives of millions of people.
In a recent article in WIRED magazine, “After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance," Clive Thompson, a contributing editor, writes about his experience of going solar: “My rooftop panels showed me that a world powered by renewables would be an overflowing horn of plenty, with fast, sporty cars and comfy homes.”
I have been a scientist once. I studied superconducting films at ultra-low temperatures below 500 millikelvins. If you want to know why, please watch the documentary “The Edge of All We Know,” which documents the incredible achievement of imaging a black hole at the center of a giant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87. This 2020 documentary is now streaming on Netflix ...
Many companies offer solar storage solutions. Below is a photo of an installation of a Panasonic EverVolt system. This system has an estimated 45 kWh of energy storage and 15 kW of power. This grid-tied battery backup system made it through one outage and then failed during the next one. It does not operate now. The installer is bankrupt. ...
