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Aerleum Fuel from Thin Air
What if the secret to decarbonizing the hardest-to-abate industries wasn’t buried deep underground, but was floating right in front of our faces? In the above interview, Steven Bardey, PhD, CTO/co-founder of Aerleum, showcased a technology that sounds like science fiction but is quickly becoming a modular reality: capturing CO2 directly from the sky and turning…
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Energy as a Broadband Provider Strategy
Energy as a strategy for broadband service providers to be more sustainable and more efficient is what George Goncalves recommended at FiberConnect 2023. In the above interview, Goncalves, Director of Product Line Management of ATX Networks, explains how hybrid supercapacitors (HSC) fit into such a strategy. Performance, Sustainability, and Safety Advantages In the realm of…
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The Networked Water Heater
With an increasing reliance on renewable energy sources, stabilization of the grid becomes increasingly important. That is, a sunny, windy day has the potential to produce excess electricity that will not be there come evening. Midwest Energy & Communications (MEC) is solving that problem with the help of its customers, their respective water heaters, and…
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Cell Sites, Solar & Super Capacitors – Off-Grid for 5G & More
“The electrical load of the site has tripled, if not quadrupled,” due to the advent of 5G radio components according to CICUSA CEO, Marty Snyder. As he explains in the above interview, this means that his team needed to increase the photovoltaic (PV) solar panel array on an existing cell site to 15 kilowatts to…
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The 5G Power Challenge
Is power an Achille’s heel of 5G? PowerRox’s Brian Zahnstecher, the co-chair of the IEEE, International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) Energy Efficiency Working Group, provides an update to an earlier ViodiTV interview regarding the work of the IEEE 5G Energy Efficiency Working Group. Joining him is Marty Snyder of CICUSA, a system integrator that has…
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Will Solar Be a Driver of Autonomous Vehicles?
Paper-thin panels that mold to a surface are critical for solar power to power devices in non-traditional places. Some of those unusual places could be the rooftop or spoilers of a next-generation vehicle, according to Ben Lenail, Director of Business Development, for solar panel manufacturer, Alta Devices, a Hanergy Company. Speaking at the World…
