Featured in Search for buoyancy – 10-2017

Solar SOS

Mobile solar: Instances of severe weather events have been more frequent and more visible across North America and the Caribbean these past few weeks. When disaster strikes, society springs into action, but one of the unsung heroes of the relief effort is mobile solar power, which can bring reliable and emergency electricity to regions cut off from the grid in an instant.

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pv magazine

04 Oct 2017

The devastation from the recent Hurricanes Harvey and Irma wrought a heavy toll on communities across the southern U.S. and Caribbean. Suffering was alleviated in many places by the impact of mobile solar PV.

It is hurricane season, and warming waters have created more than one historic, devastating storm in 2017. In August, Hurricane Harvey sent a deluge of water over and into the Texan city of Houston. And then in September, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Mexico’s state of Chiapas. Soon after, Hurricane Irma swept …

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