Eco Factor: Panasonic hopes to provide renewable energy generators for every home by 2020.
After merging with Sanyo, Japanese giant Panasonic believes that by the year 2020 every home will produce enough clean energy for its own needs. The company has talked about plans being put in place to step up change to enable homes to run off-grid within the next decade.
Referred to as GT 12 (Green Transformation 12), the new plan will focus on research and development of eco-friendly technologies for the future. Panasonic is looking at every aspect of energy production and energy storage, which will help them become dominant in energy management.
Panasonic has already developed a laptop prototype that uses a DMFC to offer five hours of battery life on a 50cc dose of liquid methanol. The company now believes that time has come when houses will become autonomous in terms of technology and consumers will generate their own energy using solar panels or fuel cells.
Via: Tech Radar
