Summer Solstice Char-B-Que Open House at Gill Tract
On Friday, June 21, All Power Labs and the Local Carbon Network hosted an open house at UC Gill Tract Community Farm, our regenerative farming partner in Albany, CA. The Summer Solstice Char-B-Que Open House showcased the innovative integration of biochar co-composting into regenerative farming practices. More than 60 attendees were given tours of the two-acre organic farm and medicinal herb garden, and were shown the remarkable changes to soil and plant health that Gill Tract has observed since it started co-composting with SkyCarbon Biochar more than a year ago. To further celebrate the Northern Hemisphere’s longest day, we unveiled……
We won!
We’re honored to announce that All Power Labs is part of the winning team for the Water Abundance XPRIZE 2018. APL was the technical lead for the Skysource/Skywater Alliance team, and brought gasifier based power generation, plus a unique use of water vapor from biomass, to the larger problem of making atmospheric water generation machines truly usable in the world. The $1.5M award was announced at the XPRIZE Visioneering 2018 event in Los Angeles, October, 20, 2018, bringing to a conclusion a 2 year long competition involving 98 contending teams from 27 countries. The prize was launched in 2016 at……
Local Carbon Network: Terni, Umbria- Italy launch
Kickstarter Crowdfund in process. Join us for a 10 day learning holiday on a rural Italian farm,with Power Pallet, biochar, and composting (and all the other Italian provincial pleasures). This is the Valle Santa / Reiti Valley, where the APL New Farms Labs is located. We’ve been running machinery at this site for about four years now, and using it as the headquarters for APL efforts in Italy and the EU. With our transition to the Local Carbon Network model of deployment, we’re now recasting this site as our second major full circle “waste-to-valve, sky-to-soil” operating hub.Those following our Local Carbon Network project will know……
APL monthly Open House continues this Friday
We’ve restarted our monthly Open House events at All Power Labs. Now that we’ve launched the new PP30 Cogen-CS, and the Local Carbon Network is up and running, we have new reasons to gather the interested at our facility in Berkeley CA. This month we’re having the event this Friday, Sept 14th, from 5-7pm The Open House events are free. The food and drink are free. All you have to do is RSVP here. And bring your friends. PP30 Cogen-CS Demonstration [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Open House is an opportunity to see APL machines in operation and discuss your potential……
PP30 Launch event at APL this Friday!
June 29th, 5-7PM, Berkeley California We look forward to seeing many of you at our new product Launch Party later this week. We have 60 people RSVPed so far, which is approaching the attendenance levels for our full workshop weekends of years ago– which is great. We also have some surprisingly dedicated international travellers coming for the event. We’re of course very happy to see this much interest in our new product. We have space for ~100 people, so if you want to be there, please do RSVP to the event page soon.The event will be a formal presentation by APL Founder/CEO Jim Mason on the new concepts and features……
The New PP30 Cogen-CS
Combined Heat and Power with built-in Carbon Sequestration (CHP-CS) All Power Labs invites you to join us for a special Launch Party on Friday, June 29th in Berkeley, CA where we will debut the new Gen 2 Power Pallet. The event will be a formal presentation by APL Founder/CEO Jim Mason on the new concepts and features of the PP30 Cogen-CS, as well as run demonstrations with several machines on site. As many of you have noticed, APL has been rather quiet for the last two years in terms of new announcements and deployments. The pause has been enabled by significant grant funding……
Local Carbon Network: Campaign progress
Thank you to all who have participated in the Indiegogo campaign to set the Local Carbon Network project in motion. So far we’ve raised about $25,000 in Local Carbon sponsorships, which is about 20% of the way to our goal. This is a great start, and we were pleased so many of your wrote notes back to us to affirm this new model for enabling local carbon drawdown. Now we need to get the campaign to the goal of $150,000 to fully set the Bay Area Carbon Cluster in motion. We have about a week left in the campaign, which is……
LA Times: APL biomass gasification “one of the most promising technologies”
Flexible clean energy that helps solve climate change? That’s what the LA Times calls biomass gasification from All Power Labs– “one of the most promising technologies” to help solve the forest health crisis in California. Last week the Los Angeles Times, California’s largest newspaper, published an editorial exploring solutions for one of the toughest problems facing the Golden State: how to preserve our leadership on climate change while dealing with a crippling multi-year drought that has left more than 100 million trees dead. The solution is to convert all that dead biomass into on-demand energy, and along the way do……
A menace in our mountains: the terrifying climate truth behind California’s fall forest colors
Fall in the United States is known for the colors in New England, as trees turn to the warm shades of autumn before dropping their leaves. That sort of change historically wasn’t common here California, where our forests are mostly evergreen pine trees. At least, that used to be true–but not anymore. Thanks to drought and climate change, there are now 66 million dead trees in California, a number that may triple by year’s end. That’s almost one million linear miles of dead biomass, enough to stretch to the moon and back twice. But, when combined with a forward thinking……
Constant improvement: 2016 updates to the Power Pallet
Gasification has been famously described as “all variables, all the time,” and wrangling those variables into a tractable form has been our work at All Power Labs since starting out with the GEK kit back in 2OO8. Since then, we’ve released five complete generations of our gasification systems, and today Power Pallets are at work in more than 3O countries on six continents, and are supporting research at dozens of universities. They deliver high-quality energy for productive use by turning waste biomass into on-demand, renewable, carbon-negative energy for far less than the cost of solar or diesel. (A recent video……