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The 411: Investment Opportunity/Product Development - Uninterrupted Source of Clean Energy On Demand
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AMES: Clean Energy On Demand Anywhere In The World
The future of clean energy. Portable power plant in a box. No grid, no fuel, no emissions.
We need energy for everything in our lives. However, when a disaster or unexpected failure strikes, we're faced with many serious problems. We can’t survive without energy for long! Moreover, hundreds of millions of people around the world don’t have access to reliable and affordable energy. At Ascent Systems, we developed an innovative solution that can serve as an uninterrupted source of clean energy on demand. No fuel, no emissions, anywhere in the world! We want to bring it to the people.
Short Summary
Background
After the Hurricane Maria hit in 2017, Puerto Rico was left without power for 8 months! In February 2018, earthquake in Mexico left half a million homes without power. It is not just lights – everything needs energy: businesses cannot function without it, schools cannot operate without computers or equipment, hospitals without hot water and so on. It costs not only money but also human lives. In Florida, people died in a senior housing because air-conditioning didn’t work. These events are becoming more frequent and more severe. Hundreds of millions of people live in a permanent state of disaster such as refugee camps, war zones, epidemics and other humanitarian crises. For them access to energy and clean water (which also requires energy) is a matter of life or death.
Summary
Today, when energy is needed on demand, practically the only solution is diesel generators, which require constant supply of fuel. There are several problems with this solution: 1) cost of fuel delivery can be high and it accumulates with the time; 2) burning fossil fuels creates emissions harmful for environment; but perhaps the most important, 3) a disruption of fuel supply, which is very likely in places where it is needed the most, will leave vulnerable people without source of energy and, in many cases, jeopardize lives.
Unfortunately, renewable energy technologies are still expensive, intermittent in energy generation and can hardly be portable.
What Is New and Why We Need Your Help
Drawing on our experience in space applications, we have designed an Autonomous Mobile Energy System (AMES). It combines advantages of several technologies in the way nobody has done before. It is made as module which can fit into a standard shipping container, be delivered to any geographical location in the world, get rapidly deployed and serve as an uninterrupted source of clean energy on demand. The *brain* of the system is an advanced control software, which uses real-time environmental data and machine learning algorithm for optimal decision making, which improve efficiency of the system three-folds. This is what makes our technology different!
We are currently testing our technology at the research facility in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. We receive support from the Government of Canada. But we need more in order to build a full-scale prototype and demonstrate it.
The Impact You Can Make
Over the last decade the US alone spent $350 billion on disaster relief efforts. Many problems are related to the need to respond to sudden “unexpected” events. Being prepared would save a lot of money and many lives. A fleet of AMES units ready to be dispatched to wherever and whenever is needed could be a big part of the solution for this growing problem. An organization working on restoration of Puerto Rico housing and infrastructure indicated they would need 10,000 mobile energy modules.
According to the UN High Commissioner there are 22.5 million refugees in the world. They all need not only food and shelter but also energy and hot water for everyday living. Arrays of AMES units installed in the camps would provide these critical necessities and contribute into the solution for this problem helping millions of people.
Accessing reasonably priced energy also remains a challenge for over 200,000 people living in Canada’s nearly 300 remote communities. For their energy needs they must stock diesel fuel to last for half a year. AMES units could relieve those communities from the constant risk of being left without heat, while avoiding greenhouse gas and other emissions.
Finally, there is a huge need for energy in developing countries, many regions of which have no access to the centralized grid. Building additional capacity is expensive and extending the transmission lines is wasteful due to unavoidable transmission losses. In most of the world power is still generated primarily by burning fossil fuels, which is responsible for a majority of greenhouse gas emissions and other damaging impact on environment. Deploying AMES modules instead of bringing diesel generators or further extending grids and pipelines would save more than five million ton of CO2 equivalent GHG emissions annually. This equates to more than a million passenger vehicles taken of the road! We can hardly estimate the number of animals saved and trees preserved!.
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