More Options for a Cleantech Electric Future --- with structures powered by on-site solar/wind and flywheel batteries --- and travel by solar/fitness EVs

On-site solar and wind power, with new energy storage and control systems, can work magic:  They can provide convenient reliable low-cost power for buildings and electric vehicles; and don't pollute our air, water, or earth.

Electric road vehicles that can be driven all day on solar power, with a healthy exercise option that extends their range: They can provide a unique option not now available from others whose business model is business-as-usual.

(L. to R.):  Building-integral solar/wind/UPS-powered;  new UPS;  electric highway; solar/fitness EV.
 

RPM is dedicated to provide the following products, enabling options not now available from any others:

1. Our proven ultra-efficient broad-speed-range brushless DC generator, which provides far better power quality proportional to the third power of wind speed and more than 2x the energy yield from the same wind turbines used with other generators such as alternators and induction machines. 

2. Our minimal-loss kinetic (flywheel) batteries, which can provide regenerated power for months, compared to others that provide power for only seconds and continually dissipate kilowatts. They are intended for stationary installations and space vehicle applications, will be far more reliable than chemical batteries now widely used, have comparable service lifetime cost, and will not incur disposal problems.

3. Our solar/fitness EV, which is enabled by our proven ultra-efficient brushless regenerative motor-wheels. It can provide far lower cost road travel in a safe, comfortable and spacious electric vehicle, for about 95% of daily travel, with effectively unlimited range without discharging its onboard batteries. It also provides a healthy exercise option that can extend its range at higher average speeds..

Take a look at some great options that don't fit the business models of established companies.

Would you be surprised to see examples of solar and wind power installations that are surely cost-competitive, can provide power when needed more reliably than a central power plant, do not preempt land for power generation, and won't kill birds?  Besides generating power, their solar panels also provide shelter, as beautiful roofing, exterior walls, and windows.  The building can even provide mounting, wind funneling and limiting, and "bird screening" for low-cost building-integral wind turbine installations.

Where grid connection is not available, they can be capable of reliable and carefree stand-alone operation, when combined with RPM's future on-site power storage, regeneration, and control systems.  For examples of on-site building-integral solar and wind powered buildings, click on this text.  Why building-integral?  Because the power system needs no dedicated land for it.  And you only pay the difference between conventional roofing, walls, windows, and windmill towers vs. the solar panels and wind turbines that will replace them.

Before you accept that non-polluting electric vehicles (EVs) need to cost more than fuel-burners, can only be driven over short distance, etc., see this explanation, illustration, and analysis of EVs charged in-transit on electric highways, where they can have unlimited range, from solar, wind, and RPM flywheel battery power.  Click here.  If you feel that automatic collision avoidance and servo steering on electric highways is a bit radical, consider this:  You'll love the freedom, to accomplish other tasks, while driving on electric highways.  And servos don't nod off, fail to pay attention to driving, make crucial blunders, etc.

RPM's generators and wheel motors can enable solar/fitness EVs that don't need gas, oil, coolants and their pumps, nor a clutch, gear-shift, differential, universal joints, etc. to propel them. These EVs cost far less per mile driven than any other road vehicles. For day trips, powered by 1500-watt photovoltaic panels on their top exterior surfaces, they can average 50-mph with 75-mph bursts --- without discharging their onboard batteries. So their battery life is 10 years, not 2 years like most EVs you probably have heard about. Our onboard generator provides power and optional recumbent cycling exercise. See more on RPM's solar/fitness EV.

For a description and illustration of cost-competitive, safe, non-polluting power storage technology, for more reliable, lower cost UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), and for UPS that will greatly enhance distributed on-site solar and wind power,  click here.   With no losses,  no maintenance,  and unlimited service life,  this is clearly a far better option than all other UPS available.

For a brief summary of environmental and sustainable energy benefits, that can result from wide scale (preferably on-site) solar and wind power, and a rough estimate of its long-term price (including on-site storage/regeneration and comparison to conventional grid power), see this page for simple math to compute sustainable power cost.

Need to learn the  basic physics  of kinetic (flywheel) power storage?

Have you ever wondered about performance you'd get from a 4-wheel  urban EV,  that combines a few batteries, photovoltaics, human-powered pedals, and regenerative motor-wheel for its 2-wheel drive?  Here's a description, illustrations, and analysis.

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