Ra Power: BYU Engineers Illuminate Remote Worksites with Solar Innovation
The BYU Capstone team "Ra Power," developed an off-grid mobile power solution for remote construction sites — a climate-controlled shipping container housing 12,500 watts of bi-facial solar panels and sufficient battery storage to power an average American home for over a day without sunlight.
“We all know that we play a critical part in the team,” Mechanical Engineering senior Joseph Morrell shared . “There’s elements of each of our areas of study that no one of us is able to do all on our own.”
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