Ideas to accelerate Green Energy

Wind turbines installed in one hour

Most industrial wind turbines take between weeks if not months to install. What if the wind turbine could be installed within one hour? How would you do this? First of all most horizontal-axis wind turbines need heavy anchoring because the structure is asymmetric and the point of gravity is high-up. Vertical-axis wind turbines do not have these inconveniences. What if instead of ground anchoring which takes a lot of time, a heavy base is used? What is extremely heavy and stable? A container full of batteries. By placing in the middle of a container full of batteries the pole onto which the wind turbine is mounted, you have two big advantages. First the container can be easily transported to the final installation location and the wind turbine just needs to be inserted into a hole in the middle and some cables connected. Secondly the batteries store all the energy so automatically highly windy moments and no windy moments can be smoothened.?

Somebody else pays

Wind turbines and containers full of batteries are not cheap. How can we find the financing for them? One idea would be to have telecom operators pay for them. Why would they want to do that? By placing a mobile base station antenna on top of the wind turbine, a dual function is created. Not only are you generating energy, you are also providing communication services. Add a couple of Starlink dishes to ensure backhauling and you can now go and place these containers almost anywhere on earth. So not only do you provide green energy but also communication services. By making the base station neutral host networks, all telecom operators of the country can share them as well as their costs.

Solar fields installed in a day

Solar fields normally take a long time to install. Hinged and folding panels can be dropped off in the morning by a truck and pulled open to cover a large area in the same day.?

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Connecting solar farms to battery containers with wind turbines

The above mentioned solutions can now be all combined. You put a large number of solar panels on a field. Put several battery containers with wind turbines and optionally mobile antennas and Starlink dishes.

The ideal place to put these installations is at the outskirts of major cities next to main highway parking lots and spread along other highway parkings.?

By creating charging infrastructure which is mounted on concrete or other heavy bases, you are able to install many charging stations in an hour. Connect the battery containers to the charging stations and you have a business of selling 100% green energy to lorry drivers and consumers.

Adding Hydrogen

If on windy or sunny days, you have an overproduction of green energy, then by adding one or more containers with hydrogen-generating electrolysers connected to a close water source, you can now generate hydrogen from the excess energy.

This hydrogen can be sold to hydrogen powered vehicles or collected and distributed elsewhere.

Why do we need all these charging stations outside big cities and not inside?

Amazon is testing robot taxis without a steering wheel. Tesla is likely going to announce them on their investor day at the beginning of March. Google’s Waymo and GM’s Cruise are already driving them commercially. Soon we will need charging capabilities outside of cities so these robot taxis leave at night and get recharged in parking lots on the outskirts.

Tesla is aiming to start mass production of Optimus in the next 3 to 5 years, potentially even sooner. This means that robot taxis can be combined with humanoids and as such home delivery is possible. A humanoid can go and pick up groceries, like Amazon Fresh, Uber Eats,... and any other product you want to be delivered.?

A new economical model

Even large companies like Tesla, Google,... do not have the capital to massively purchase millions of robot taxis, humanoids, solar farms, battery farms, wind farms,... What we need is to bring the costs down and get funding in exchange for future revenue sharing. A nice trick to get the costs down is to open source the designs of all the industrial equipment, i.e. the battery container, the wind turbine, the solar panels with hinges, the charging points, hydrogen electrolysers,...

Facebook followed a similar approach with server hardware and telecom equipment. When they needed 4/5G mobile broadband to be deployed in Africa, South America and parts of Asia, they were told by operators that the cost was too high. So by creating open source hardware and software [e.g. OpenRAN], to deploy complete mobile broadband networks, they are able to bring down substantially the cost of sourcing all the components.

By creating a #GreenInfraProject, which brings designs for all the infrastructure and management software into the open source community, the costs for manufacturers to build them will go down. Also interconnecting equipment will be cheaper if common standards are designed.

Finally by creating a new economical model whereby investors can buy a share of future energy revenues today and by pooling many together, it would be possible for the above mentioned solutions to be funded, deployed and operated at scale very soon. Web3 infrastructure can be used to make payments and spendings auditable.

What are we waiting for????