{"id":10663,"date":"2022-08-18T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=10663"},"modified":"2022-08-18T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:36:36","slug":"unidades-moviles-de-socorro-en-casos-de-desastre-que-funcionan-completamente-con-energia-limpia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=10663","title":{"rendered":"Unidades m\u00f3viles de socorro en casos de desastre que funcionan completamente con energ\u00eda limpia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La startup Sesame Solar, con sede en Michigan (EUA), est\u00e1 produciendo lo que considera la primera nanored m\u00f3vil totalmente renovable del mundo para el alivio de desastres naturales.\u00a0Sus unidades pueden ser utilizadas como centros de comando y comunicaciones m\u00f3viles, unidades m\u00e9dicas, cocinas e incluso viviendas temporales.\u00a0Los sistemas pueden estar listos para su uso dentro de los 15 minutos posteriores a la llegada. La mayor\u00eda de las unidades m\u00f3viles como estas funcionan con combustible diesel, que emite di\u00f3xido de carbono cuando se quema, lo que contribuye al cambio clim\u00e1tico. Pero las unidades de Sesame tienen paneles solares en la parte superior que se despliegan, dando a la empresa su nombre, una referencia a \u201cs\u00e9samo abierto\u201d. \u201cTodo el concepto es que no se requieren combustibles f\u00f3siles para poder tener d\u00edas o semanas de autonom\u00eda energ\u00e9tica despu\u00e9s de un desastre clim\u00e1tico extremo, como un hurac\u00e1n, un tornado o un incendio forestal, o un evento de interrupci\u00f3n de la red en California&#8230; o un ciberataque, o en cualquier momento en que la red est\u00e9 inactiva\u201d, dijo Lauren Flanagan, cofundadora y directora ejecutiva de Sesame.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.cnbc.com\/p\/gZWlPC\/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&amp;byGuid=7000255652\" width=\"728\" height=\"454\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michigan-based startup Sesame Solar is producing what it deems the world\u2019s first fully-renewable mobile nanogrid for natural disaster relief. Its units can be used as mobile communications and command centers, medical units, kitchens and even temporary housing. The systems can be ready for use within 15 minutes of arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Most mobile units like these have been powered by diesel fuel, which emits carbon dioxide when burned, contributing to climate change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"BoxInline-container \">\n<div id=\"BoxInline-ArticleBody-6\" class=\"BoxInline-container\" data-module=\"mps-slot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Sesame\u2019s units have solar panels on top which unfold, giving the company its name &#8212; a reference to \u201copen sesame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole concept is that no fossil fuels are required to be able to have days or weeks of energy autonomy after an extreme weather disaster, like a hurricane or tornado or wildfire, or an event of grid outage in California&#8230;or a cyber-attack, or anytime the grid is just down,\u201d said Sesame co-founder and CEO Lauren Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe combine solar and battery storage, or we also have other sources of renewable power, we use green hydrogen as backup power. And we can do small wind turbine if conditions are right,\u201d added Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>Sesame sells the systems for anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000, or more for larger installations like a full medical clinic. It has sold 50 nanogrid units so far. Its customers already include the U.S. Air Force, as well as cable providers like Cox and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/CMCSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been 18\u00a0multibillion-dollar climate disasters in the U.S. in the last 18 months. And it\u2019s rare you\u2019re going to find a company that already has revenue, already has customers, already has impacted the world, and has done it on a shoestring budget,\u201d said Vijay Chattha, with VSC Ventures, one of the investors backing Sesame Solar.<\/p>\n<p>Others include Morgan Stanley, Pax Angels, and Belle Capital. The company has raised only $2 million so far, which may seem like very little for a company with such broad potential. But Flanagan said revenues tripled in the last year and are set to do that again this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason we haven\u2019t raised a lot of capital is because we have revenues. I\u2019m a kind of old-school operator, I believe in get product market fit, find customers who will pay, iterate and improve it and try to run as close to break-even as you can, and then you\u2019ve got options, right?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>One of those is a potential new business model where rather than selling the units the company would rent them out. She wants to get FEMA on board with something like that, which she said would be a gamechanger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/25\/sesame-solar-is-selling-clean-energy-nanogrids-for-disasters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>https:\/\/www.cnbc.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La startup Sesame Solar, con sede en Michigan (EUA), est\u00e1 produciendo lo que considera la primera nanored m\u00f3vil totalmente renovable del mundo para el alivio&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10669,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663\/revisions\/10669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}