CrewMate, a semi-autonomous lift-assist vehicle developed by Moog Construction, has completed a field trial near Niagara Falls, N.Y., demonstrating the machine’s ability to help solar field workers install PV panels.
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Montante Solar orchestrated the field trial with Moog Construction at a solar field atop a closed landfill.
For the field trial, the company says CrewMate carried pallets loaded with 31 94-inch PV panels while following workers using the machine’s lift assist to pick up each panel and guide it onto the field’s solar module racking.
CrewMate followed the installers between solar racks until emptying its pallet, using sensors to keep at a safe distance.
“CrewMate is an innovation we believe can safely increase productivity and help meet the demand for new solar farms and workers,” says Steven Erck, vice president for Montante Solar.
“The PV panels in this field test are among the largest and heaviest installed by crews. CrewMate took the strain out of installation work that’s often done in high temperatures and remote areas.”
This fall, CrewMate is slated to engage in a larger pilot project helping construct a solar field at a new location.
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CrewMate Semi-Autonomous Panel Installation Vehicle Completes Field Trial
Looks like communism! is the new mantra of the GOP. It’s coming from the least intelligent of their leaders to the least intelligent of their followers.
Could work!
What Obama says at left is a reminder that life in on Earth is tough enough without the planet’s most nation being led by a criminal sociopath.
As previously mentioned, it’s good to see the rising popularity of astrophysicist Dr. Brian Cox.
In this video, he explains that life on Earth is about 4 billion years old, but for the first 3 billion, there was nothing more complicated than single celled organisms. He suggests that this may be the reason that civilizations are rare in the universe, i.e., that they’re only around for the blink of an eye in terms of geologic time.
To me, it also makes one wonder why it took God 3 billion years to create the first multicelled form of life.
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