Digital Electricity is a Gamechanger

There's been a major breakthrough in electricity to solve a problem you likely didn't know we had. Much of the electrical power you're paying for each month never gets used, instead it's lost as heat or vibrations. Digital electricity (or software-defined electricity) is here to make every electrical system 100% efficient; meaning you only pay for the power you need.

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Sources used:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/news/g3237/2017-popular-mechanics-breakthrough-awards/
https://3dfs.com (and thank you to founder Chris Doerfler for answering some questions over email)
http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-much-electricity-disappears-between-a-power-plant-and-your-plug/
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/history-electricity/
https://power2switch.com/blog/how-electricity-grew-up-a-brief-history-of-the-electrical-grid/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthunckler/2016/10/21/3dfs-brings-you-the-future-of-electrical-power-today/#b9464d69b934
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-gas/our-insights/the-digital-utility-new-opportunities-and-challenges

Footage & Photos Credits:
Videoblocks: https://videoblocks.go2cloud.org/SHBR
3DFS product photos from https://3dfs.com
3DFS: A New Way of Controlling Power Supply by Means of Dedicated Software https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4r8-OoFG4
3DFS's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEsBO4wy1OmgK5jUFIQnh_w
https://vimeo.com/3dfs
NASA | Earth at Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3YYwIsMHzw
Time Lapse ODATA Colocation - DC SP01 by Odata Colocation https://vimeo.com/194652784
Photo by Richard Warren Lipack https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1880EDISON1881LampsSOCKETSrwLIPACKowner.jpg
U.S. Army photo by Steve Stover
Nikola Tesla pictured with his equipment Credit: Wellcome Collection
MacBook teardown from James Coleman https://vimeo.com/161778018
Tesla induction motor https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Wechselstromgenerator.jpg

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