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New! Smart Villages “pocket guide” to rural energy & smart villages
This is a great short E-book (78pp) overview of the global energy reality for about 2 billion people. Read this in 15 minutes to understand why the Hydrobee home energy system is so important, and why it's so much better than solar power alone.
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Firebee Stovetop Charger featured at ETHOSCON
Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) is a non-profit organization for appropriate technology that holds annual conference on Clean Cookstoves. Most of their presentations for last 10 years are online and are maybe the best single...
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Market Reports: Micro Renewables vs Grid Power
Results of a 2013 study of the market potential for distributed micro-renewables like Hydrobee have been published by Norplan, a Norwegian consulting firm. “NORPLAN Study: Cost Competitivness of Rural Electrification Solutions“ “Cost-benefit analysis of rural...
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Showtime in Seattle
Hydrobee is exhibiting at the SURF Expo on June 18, 2-6 pm, in downtown Seattle. Over 100 startup companies are showcasing their products and initiatives. Over 700 attendees are expected. We will have a table shared with our production partner DA International...
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2 Billion People Will Need Off-Grid Charging by 2020
The 2014 Bi-annual Report of the Green Power for Mobile program has this startling information: **** Future mobile subscriber growth will be concentrated in developing countries of Africa and Asia, among populations who are currently ‘unconnected’ to mobile phone...
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“FireBee” Student Team Wins $20,000 Prize
FireBee, a student team at the University of Washington mentored by the Hydrobee founders, won both the $15,000 Grand Prize and the $5,000 Clean Energy Prize on April 2 in the 2015 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. FireBee has developed...
read moreHydrobee gets “Best Investment Opportunity” award from Zino Society
The Zino Society is one of the leading angel investment organizations in the Seattle region. Last week, at their "50 Shades of Green" investment forum, Hydrobee president Burt Hamner gave a 5-minute pitch and won the awards for Best Investment Opportunity and Best...
read moreHas Hydrobee Cracked the Code for Personal Energy Security?
Suddenly there are over 5 billion people who need a charger for their phones, and there are a billion of them either living without regular power or preparing for the day the power goes out. A Seattle startup company, Hydrobee SPC, claims its new charger has “cracked...
read moreVote for Hydrobee in Autodesk 2014 Inventor of Year Contest
Last September the Autodesk Corp., producers of awesome product design software, featured Hydrobee as its Innovator of the Month. Now they are holding an online voting contest for Autodesk 2014 Inventor of the Year. The voting link is not obvious, it's here and just...
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