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Transforming Solar Nanogrid Can Power Homes (And Charge a Tesla)

Sesame Solar’s mobile nanogrids generate power from the sun to provide energy to displaced residents and emergency crews after natural disasters. 0:00 Intro 0:44 How the Nanogrid works 2:02 Mobile Nanogid features and connectivity 2:42 How the Sesame Solar Nanogrid powered a winery 3:45 Outro Read the CNET article: Mobile Nanogrids Can Provide Electricity, Clean…

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Sesame Solar’s mobile nanogrids generate power from the sun to provide energy to displaced residents and emergency crews after natural disasters.

0:00 Intro
0:44 How the Nanogrid works
2:02 Mobile Nanogid features and connectivity
2:42 How the Sesame Solar Nanogrid powered a winery
3:45 Outro

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Mobile Nanogrids Can Provide Electricity, Clean Water During a Disaster

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  1. E. v. K.

    March 19, 2023 at 8:43 am

    Good Idea but Batteries are much better

    • Nick B

      March 19, 2023 at 2:29 pm

      These are batteries…

  2. Colton Piper

    March 19, 2023 at 8:46 am

    Kind of funny how wine is a massive part of the US economy. Basically saying “yeah, the US is basically full of a bunch of functioning alcoholics”

  3. Rui

    March 19, 2023 at 8:46 am

    Would be interesting to know in the span of a year what the total use of the hydrogen backup. My guess, residual and could be avoided by using more battery capacity for less capital.

  4. James Dubben

    March 19, 2023 at 8:52 am

    When it isn’t needed for an emergency, offer free power to low income communities.

  5. aquafishes

    March 19, 2023 at 8:57 am

    Cost creates limitations. We need assembly lines to bring cost down.

  6. Jkauppa

    March 19, 2023 at 9:18 am

    actually first is shelter, not power

    • Jkauppa

      March 19, 2023 at 9:20 am

      public service is not needed

    • Jkauppa

      March 19, 2023 at 9:21 am

      no you dont need to do what you think you need to do, like wine

    • Jkauppa

      March 19, 2023 at 9:22 am

      pseudo required stuff is not required/needed, no primary worry, diy, I will not buy your wine, economy

    • Jkauppa

      March 19, 2023 at 9:22 am

      economy is not required/needed

  7. besweeeet2

    March 19, 2023 at 9:31 am

    Cost is still a huge issue and is where gas, diesel, and others still shine. They also work without sun. When will someone start mass-producing panels at low costs?

    • Callum McMac

      March 19, 2023 at 12:44 pm

      As you buy more the more people will put money into these technologies, at MIT they found a way to make solar panels much lighter, one day an entire house may only be 100 pounds of solar, cost taken down massively and they found a way to replace silver. That said, if money keeps going into solar everything in life would be much less expensive because you take the price of power down the price of everything comes down.

    • besweeeet2

      March 19, 2023 at 2:08 pm

      @Callum McMac  Seems like it still has a ways to go. Solar is increasing in popularity but is accessibility (cost) improving or is it getting more expensive because of said popularity?

  8. Gero Lindenberg

    March 19, 2023 at 9:42 am

    “Wine can’t be made without power”
    Hilarious

    • Marc Salamoun

      March 19, 2023 at 11:55 am

      What’s hilarious about it, dummy?

  9. alex3261

    March 19, 2023 at 9:53 am

    Ideal in Europe wintertime.

    • Callum McMac

      March 19, 2023 at 12:32 pm

      I thought it was made for the US during hurricane season when it’s warmer. What about snow?

  10. Rich

    March 19, 2023 at 10:11 am

    It’s like something from Command and Conquer

  11. Emmanuel Harbor

    March 19, 2023 at 11:21 am

    Very innovative

    • ᴍᴇꜱꜱᴀɢᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ👉 MR_ CNET

      March 19, 2023 at 11:58 am

      ☝️𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭👆…

  12. Wiwing Margahayu

    March 19, 2023 at 11:27 am

    mini wind turbine

    • ᴍᴇꜱꜱᴀɢᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ👉 MR_ CNET

      March 19, 2023 at 12:02 pm

      ☝️𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭👆….

    • MidgetMan 420

      March 19, 2023 at 1:25 pm

      They aren’t (usually) that useful at the ground level. The wind speed is too low.

  13. GDop26

    March 19, 2023 at 11:50 am

    Sorry, I just started watching but the caster here looks like a young Willem Dafoe.

  14. Jamin Shanti

    March 19, 2023 at 11:59 am

    You could pull this behind your Tesla and never be late to work! 🎉🎉🎉

  15. Bubbernino

    March 19, 2023 at 12:04 pm

    Where is the “Nano” incorporated in the NanoGrid? I mean my PS5 may have nanotechnology incorporated somewhere within, but it took a look at itself when people asked it what it wanted to be called. 😅

  16. Richard

    March 19, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    “It is not possible to make wine without power”. The CNET editing team really did her dirty.

  17. Christopher Mara

    March 19, 2023 at 12:37 pm

    Interesting but would this system work as well in say the northeast after a blizzard? Solar makes sense in ares that have a lot of sunshine but what about the rest of us?

  18. MidgetMan 420

    March 19, 2023 at 2:29 pm

    The generator is one of those pieces of technology that won’t be snuffed out so easily (if it ever does). When it comes to portable power, it is unmatched. It is not wrong to use to use the right tool for the problem at hand.

    • datDANK

      March 19, 2023 at 4:23 pm

      the governor banned them…

      pretty strange

  19. Vaux Glandzer

    March 19, 2023 at 3:17 pm

    Nice sustainable energy power/electricity generator technology. Cool & useful both for critical situation & wherever electric power are needed but hard to gets/reached..

  20. Cali Kiwi

    March 19, 2023 at 4:15 pm

    We could really use a couple of those in the flood damaged areas here in NZ right now! And that’s a reasonable price for these!! We should have one in every fragile community and currently that’s most of the country on a rolling basis!

  21. Keith White

    March 19, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    Impressive 😊

  22. Ng Roy

    March 19, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    I love the idea of solar power and hydrogen fuel cell. Though, I the case of emergency I think diseal generator would be a better solution for rapid deployment and short term use. Diseal is high energy and easy to transport, as compared to batter or hydrogen, it is more fitting and more efficient per pound (because hydrogen storage takes a lot of space for relatively small amount of hydrogen and battery is dead weight once its dead). It is also more resistant to weather as it doesn’t need solar to generate power nor needing to spend extra energy to keep the batter warm. However I can see it being useful for events of long term use. Such as low maintenance stationary power backup or useful for operations that takes weeks or months.

    • NotImpressedwithHumanBehaviorOnSM

      March 19, 2023 at 8:38 pm

      Water is more prevalent and easier to obtain than diesel. After a disaster, huge fuel ‘bags’ are brought in by the military (National Guard) and that may take awhile.

      Hydrogen fuel cells (as you more than likely know) are powered by splitting hydrogen atoms from water molecules and oxygen is the by product (of electrolysis). They only need to carry water onboard. This is a game changer in terms of Emergency and Disaster management!

    • Ng Roy

      March 19, 2023 at 8:51 pm

      @NotImpressedwithHumanBehaviorOnSM you need energy input to do it regardless. I do not see the benefit of storing excess electricity in the form of hydrogen over storing in battery, due to the method of hydrogen storage needing complicated system to maintain temperature/ pressure (and fuel cell efficiency). Sure, you can transport hydrogen to refuel the system, but why use the more expensive hydrogen when you can use diseal instead. Green hydrogen surely exists, but in case of emergency I think it’s more wise to allocate resources on the cheaper, easier to access and more reliable option that can be distributed to more people.

    • Ng Roy

      March 19, 2023 at 9:05 pm

      Yes, but you need to have excess energy to begin with. The point of the hydrogen system is to store energy that can be use later. If you want to store energy, why not use battery instead? A hydrogen system isn’t more cheaper than batteries, most notably, the membrane catalysis that is often made of pt. Despite fuel cells based on fluorine or sulfur are in development, but they’re as far away as the next generation of batteries. Besides all, the water to H2 conversion requires pure water, an extra step that requires energy. With all the extra equipments and energy cost that needed for the hydrogen system to work, why waste your precious energy on hydrogen instead of battery?

  23. Dan Ri

    March 19, 2023 at 6:34 pm

    during a natural disaster, the last thing I want to do is use water to create Hydrogen. Solar and battery storage is enough

  24. rdottwo rdottwo

    March 19, 2023 at 7:50 pm

    This great! When is it’s going to be developed for off the grid living?

  25. rdottwo rdottwo

    March 19, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    If I had one of these grind I would buys some land way back in the sticks and never be seen again! This is a game changer with a 5g network to!

  26. Ou8y2k2

    March 19, 2023 at 9:53 pm

    I’d scrap the hydrogen generator for more solar, add a satellite phone in addition to the installed Wi-Fi, and place many LifeSaver jerrycans inside to filter as much water as possible. But cool idea.

  27. Rohan Abbas

    March 19, 2023 at 10:26 pm

    Linus from craigslist

  28. Keek Qeeq

    March 20, 2023 at 4:19 am

    👑 entrepreneur

  29. Raj

    March 20, 2023 at 4:47 am

    Good article , but there was no need of adding the “wine industry” as one of the use cases, there could be plenty of other usage for this .

  30. dwmcever

    March 20, 2023 at 12:14 pm

    On a sunny day that trailer might produce 1.25 Kilowatts per hour. for say 7 hours. or 9 Kilowatts. On a sunny day. A 2Kilowatt gas generator cost 600 bucks. And will use 8 bucks worth of gas to run 24 hours. I have a solar shed backup system about the size of this trailer at home with 6 Kilowatts of battery storage. My system cost $1200 . Nope not portable. Would cost me say $3,000 for a Trailer. My system also has a 3.5 Kilowatt gas generator as emergency back up to the Solar 3.5 Kilowatt inverter. That generator burns 12 bucks worth of gas every 24 hours and cost me $800 . $100,000 for a 1.25 Kw Solar system is completely useless for emergencies. My system has been tested under actual Grid failure several times here in Texas. No I don’t sell Solar systems. But there is something seriously wrong with the pricing of Solar systems.

  31. Barrett Voigt

    March 20, 2023 at 1:07 pm

    They should send these to Ukraine!

  32. Jason ON

    March 20, 2023 at 3:25 pm

    Had this idea a few years ago, told a friend who aid it was stupid. 😢

  33. Harrypm

    March 20, 2023 at 4:02 pm

    550w 38~42v dc is how much a single current generation solar panel can achieve today that you can buy in single or by the pallet amounts, daytime operation business can practically switch to solar with ease today each panel costing 300usd or less in bulk.

    In the UK for example it’s about 11-15k GBP of raw hardware can power most homes with a 2000w 24/7 load easily and it’s very quickly becoming a very sane way to cut out the grid entirely and avoiding hyper inflation.

  34. LE HS

    March 22, 2023 at 1:54 am

    Can this be towed by the CyberTruck? If so, is it possible to extend use it for charging?

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