It is the brainchild of Russell Strong, a highly proven leader in concept development and engineering of agricultural and industrial equipment, an innovator known in his industry as "Mr. Tractor" for his revolutonary designs for major corporations both here and in Europe.
The two refined the idea, then consulted with an electrical-engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology, who confirmed that the concept would work.
The Center for American Progress recently predicted that a constellation of emerging trends would converge around the concept of networked energy and, the process, create a fundamentally new engineering model for managing energy.