Quote from: maxamus on January 14, 2016, 12:22:08 PM

Quote from: pallas on January 14, 2016, 10:26:03 AM

Quote from: maxamus on January 14, 2016, 10:13:15 AM

Quote from: pallas on January 14, 2016, 09:49:22 AM

while the idea of the solar staker looks good to me, I think that a single solar array powering multiple devices (including PCs) is much more convenient and efficient.

one PC consumes at least 400 W, so you need something like 2x 250w mono-crystalline solar panel, add the solar charger, the converter, and you easily pay at lest $500

you didn't get the point.
in order to power that single staker you need a solar panel, a charger, a battery, a power adapter...
if you want two stakers it's all doubled.
much better to make a single solar panel array and power everything you can with it.
it's more efficient.

Yeah, I get it in the first place, and you are right, having one bigger solar panel is more convenient and efficient.
But we are thinking to a much smaller mobile staker ( not a pc)- This way, we can have the price for the whole device somewhere at ~ $100. If you have a pc, you can run the whole thing on the grid.
So having a a bigger solar panel involves more batteries to store all the power, and a converter.( So it can hold multiple mobile stalkers)

However I agree with you, and would make sense in having a larger solar panel and share it with your neighbor or having all build up as modules and buy 2 or 3 devices and build up a EGC Powerpack for example( more power, more mobile stakers).
We are are basically selling the energy to our neighbor, clean energy, that we actually produce, and in doing so we are recognizing the local environmental benefits and giving a price signal to the market for the real value of renewables at the community level.

In this model we can transact and price energy with Microgrid neighbors directly.We believe that it becomes somehow possible to imagine an entirely new business model emerging for utilities where you can earn from transaction fees to support this market and infrastructure.

Not to mention that beyond finance, the EGC blockchain can provide a full audit trail of a piece of data's origin in both time and place: generated amount of power, traded power, etc. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for data across disparate semi-trusting organizations.
More to come, stay tuned.

Gabi

that's why I said "the idea of the solar staker looks good to me": having many self-powered micro-stations around the globe is fascinating.
but then again all the renewable energy discussions are about efficiency, so we must take that into consideration.
still I'm looking forward to see what you'll come up with and would surely consider buying a micro-pc which is fully powered by solar energy, was it only for the coolness factor Wink

let's make it for outside use of course!