Author archive: greenpowerguy
FAA & EASA
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) What is the FAA Doing? The FAA is including AAM and UAM in our planning efforts, and our work is organized around five areas of activity – aircraft, airspace, operations, infrastructure, and community. The FAA is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on their Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign. In June 2020, FAA developed and shared…
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV)
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) use a fuel cell, sometimes in combination with a small battery or supercapacitor, to power its onboard electric motor. Fuel cells in vehicles generate electricity generally using oxygen from the air and compressed hydrogen. Most fuel cell vehicles are classified as zero-emissions vehicles that emit…
LWTD: The Four Forces
LIFT | WEIGHT | THRUST | DRAG It is not necessary for pilots to have a super-precise understanding of the four forces. The concept of energy is considerably more important. In the cockpit (especially in critical situations like final approach) I think about the energy budget a lot, and think about forces…
Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is the use of small highly automated aircraft to carry passengers or cargo at lower altitudes in urban and suburban areas which have been developed in response to traffic congestion. It usually refers to existing and emerging technologies such as traditional helicopters, vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL), electrically…
AAM | UAM | eVTOL
AAM is a new concept of air transportation using electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to move people and cargo between places not currently or easily served by surface transportation or existing aviation modes. EVTOL aircraft may be powered by hybrid electric systems, batteries or potentially hydrogen fuel cells….
Clean Transportation Decarbonization is here … now is the time to Dump the Pump
Worldwide production of Electric Vehicles (EV) was about four million units in 2021. With all of the pure EV only manufacturing facilities coming online in Europe and Asia over the next several years, it is easy to predict that worldwide production of EV’s will be roughly about twenty million vehicles…
Financial Underwriting
Financial Underwriting Optimize your Organization Strategy and Technology Consulting to Improve Mission and Business Effectiveness Support for companies seeking to acquire renewable energy and sustainability projects. Support can include short-listing projects to meet the client’s criteria, initiating discussions to determine interest levels, performing first cut due diligence, negotiating commercial agreements,…
Independent Power Producer
Commercial | Financing Options For Any Size Project Green Power Systems strives to make it as easy as possible to finance solar and provide our clients maximum value. Through a multi-million dollar fund with a leading banking investors, 100% of GPS’ projects get financed on time. GPS covers transaction services…