Originally published December 7 2005
Virginia company produces small electricity generators
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
SkyBuilt Power Inc. is now building electrical generators powered by solar and wind energy, thanks to a large capital investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's own venture capital firm.
SkyBuilt Power Inc. has begun building electricity-generating units fueled mostly by solar and wind energy.
The units, which use a battery backup system when the sun is down and the wind is calm, are designed to run for years with little maintenance.
Privately owned SkyBuilt now has a new investor - In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm set up by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Skybuilt and In-Q-Tel will announce Tuesday that they have signed a strategic development agreement, including an investment in SkyBuilt.
SkyBuilt provides innovative energy solutions with the potential to help meet a wide variety of critical government and commercial power needs, says Gilman Louie, In-Q-Tel president and CEO.
The units are not yet designed for use by homeowners.
Though it is not mentioned, SkyBuilt units would have obvious applications in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, where soldiers risk their lives over long supply lines to truck in fuel for generators.
One big drawback of solar energy until now has been that it was a "custom industry," says Scott Sklar, vice president of SkyBuilt.
We [at SkyBuilt] learned something from Henry Ford," he adds.
Its MPS units are what Sklar calls "plop and drop, plug and play."
The containers, specially modified and strengthened, can be moved by ship, truck, train, or even dropped by a laser-guided parachute to the most remote location.
Once on-site, the container is opened, and arms and poles are attached to the outside to hold solar cells and wind turbines.
The government could develop its own advanced technology (as "Q" might do).
But it is far less costly to support technology like SkyBuilt's that also finds a larger market in the private sector, says Troy Pearsall, vice president of technology at In-Q-Tel.
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