Critical Solutions, a designer of renewable energy tower systems,
announced that its subsidiary White Door is displaying its “Mojo” portable renewable energy source at U.S. Marines’ Experimental Forward Operating Base or “ExFOB” assessment in Quantico, VA, from March 5 through March 24, 2010.
The ExFOB was launched in December 2009 to explore options in renewable energy generation, water purification and other technologies for Forward Operating Bases and other military applications.
ExFOB’s participating organizations include Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, Marine Corps Systems Command, the USMC Expeditionary Energy Office and Marine Corps Base Quantico.
Mojo has the ability to specifically address a widespread need within the U.S. Military which is to have a rapidly deployable, ruggedized, mobile power generation source other than the traditional generator, according to John Jacob, White Door’s executive vice president of business development.
By demonstrating all of the Mojo’s capabilities to branches of the US Military, White Door plans to show the full capabilities of Mojo self-powered renewable energy trailers to logistics personnel, commanders and war fighters in the USMC, Army and other services.
The demonstration will also create demand for the Mojo units and their future products, Jacob hopes.
Mojo and Titan are two communication and surveillance platforms from White Door that can be used in extreme heat and cold and have little to no heat or noise signature. These ruggedized renewable energy power generation units require virtually no maintenance in the field and can be assembled and disassembled in less than 30 minutes by one person and towed by a standard HMMWV or other small military vehicle.
The units have been sold in the past to the Department of Energy and other federal buyers.
“Renewable energy has made significant advances in utilizing both wind and solar power that will currently allow mission critical applications to be powered using RE exclusively,” added Jacob.
White Door’s solutions can potentially save lives as commanders would no longer have to worry about putting troops in harm’s way to sustain as many fuel convoys, or refuel, repair and maintain traditional generator-powered devices, Jacob further said.
In January Critical Solutions announced it is highlighting the destruction and aftermath of the earthquake that hit Haiti recently to raise awareness of the life-saving capabilities of its Titan and Mojo units in natural disaster scenarios, TMCnet
reported.
