Smart Cities

The Eclipse Beats Solar Power But Is Tackled By Energy Storage

“If the eclipse of the sun is complete it will be dark forever. The demons of darkness will come down. They will eat men!,” reads the The Florentine Codex, an ethnographic study of 16th-century Aztecs in Mexico, which included their interpretation of solar eclipses. In the modern age we, for the most part, have a different understanding of the sun and celestial events like yesterday’s solar eclipse, which swept across North America and the Atlantic. The sun is no less important to us now than it was to our ancestors however, and its permenant disappearance would be no less disturbing. We may have electric lights that flicker on when darkness approaches, but the long-term plan is to run those lights on Solar Power – The Hero of the Environment. Yesterday’s “Great American Eclipse” was a symbolic reminder that our solar powered hero needs its trusty sidekick – Energy Storage. After a drop in Solar Power, […]

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