MoonlightHarvester illuminates weddings with moonlight-generated electricity

StartupRealities No 160

MoonlightHarvester is a renewable energy company that generates (expensive) electricity from moonlight and utilises it for special occasions, for example to provide moonlight-powered illumination at wedding ceremonies. Generating electricity from moonlight is not commercially viable unless the power is used for symbolic purposes for which customers are willing to pay an enormous premium. Even at full moon, the moon is 100,000 times less luminous than the sun at noon. The company takes great care to store separately in special batteries the power generated at night from moonlight so that it is never mixed with cheap solar energy.

MoonlightHarvester is working on developing future technology that may be able to capture starlight in addition to moonlight. This will allow the company to launch a franchise operation called StarlightHarvester. Starlight is much dimmer even than moonlight so harvesting it in any material way with existing solar panels is currently virtually impossible.

CEO QUOTE
"You know all those green energy companies that sell wind or solar power directly to the consumer? You pay for green and you think your electricity is green but that's just a notional concept. The green energy company does feed renewable energy into the power network but on the receiving end you draw mixed energy to power your house, as the electricity you use is a mix of all the electrons that have been fed into the network by all kinds of power plants and generating installations.

 MoonlightHarvester is different. We generate electricity on moonlit nights using the standard solar panels that capture solar energy during the day. However, we keep the generated power separate from the mains and store it in low-energy-loss batteries. When we deliver a charged battery to power your wedding reception, every last electron of energy is guaranteed to have been generated from moonlight. This guarantee allows us to charge the super expensive rates that moonlight electricity sells for." - explained MoonlightHarvester founder and CEO Mona Harvey.
Full moon
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