When a natural disaster strikes, repairing electricity grids can be one of the trickiest parts of relief efforts. Often, it can take days or weeks for power to be properly restored, even in the world's most developed countries.
For disasters of high magnitude, like major earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, the relief efforts in those first few days is often what matters most. A lack of power only makes those efforts more difficult.
InMar Technologies and OptiFuel Systems, two companies based in the US's Carolinas, are well accustomed to extreme weather events.
Just two years ago, Hurricane Helene – the deadliest and most destructive hurricane since Katrina – tore through North and South Carolina, killing more than 100 people and leaving around six million without power.
These two firms, operating together under the moniker Optimal Transit, have just come up with a quite extraordinary proposal to solve to this problem.
