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FTL Solar The world’s first portable
solar-powered
pavilions and portable
solar farms... With FTL Solar’s thin film tensile structures, harnessing the sun’s energy has never been easier. Beautifully engineered and aesthetically striking, FTL Solar’s PowerMods® are quick to install, disassemble, fold up and transport to anywhere on Earth. FTL Solar’s unique patent-pending products are the first and only pre-fabricated, mass produced photovoltaic (PV) tensile structures in the world. Created by founders, Todd Dalland and Robert Lerner, these innovative structures are an expression of function and form. The structures integrate thin film PV with super strength fabric to create architecturally refined solar canopies, arrays and enclosures that turn sunlight into electricity. As on-site, “off-the-grid” power plants, they produce electricity that can be used immediately, stored in batteries or sold back to the grid.
Renewable energy to go. FTL Solar’s PowerMods® provide shelter while powering construction tools, lights, fans, water purifiers, medical equipment, pumps, refrigeration units, and communication centers with radios, cell phones and computers. The potential of FTL Solar products has caught the eye of governments, businesses, and public and private institutions. They can be used as car parks, battery charging stations, disaster relief shelters, communication command centers, military bases, medical units, temporary housing, research posts and energy pods for small villages. In remote regions, renewable energy achieved through FTL Solar products can eliminate the need to transport and operate generators, burn kerosene or other fossil fuels – all of which pose health risks to people and damage to their environment. Beyond the ease of transport, installation and disposal, FTL Solar PowerMods® can outperform conventional crystalline PV panels in certain diffuse light conditions. This combination of amorphous silicon based thin film and tensile structures is suited for unique conditions and applications.
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NEWS May 2008 Brian Keller, a private consultant specializing in Department of Defense (DOD) research, development and acquisition joins FTL's Board of Advisors.
April 2008
November 2007 |
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Solar power gains strength in world markets. Fossil fuels have peaked in supply, and the effect of carbon emissions on climate change has taken the spotlight. The toxic effects of burning conventional fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, and tar sands, are now accepted as fact. Governments around the world are now intervening and enforcing regulations on CO2 emissions. Solar energy has tremendous growth potential in the new economy. Once a limiting factor, the supply of silicon essential to PV production is now catching up with demand. Accordingly, the cost of PV has declined more than 60% since 1984 and is continuing to drop. The U.S. is expected to become the source of almost half of all global polysilicon production, which is predicted to reach nearly 10 GW in 2010. Due to this increase in silicon supply, combined with efficiency improvements, technological advances, cost declines, and favorable policies and incentives, PV installations in the U.S. grew an average rate of 52% annually over the last 5 years.
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