Getting rid of diesel generators at remote sites, workplaces, festivals and events with Peter Paul van Voorst
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
SKOON are a very smart company indeed. They have seen that events, workplaces, remote workplaces seem to be running on dirty diesel generators Peter Paul van Voorst, founder of SKOON talks to Robert about when they first met and how they intend to change the world, bit-by-bit.
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| 0:00.0 | So let's go. Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show |
| 0:26.8 | podcast now one of the great privileges of doing fully charged now as |
| 0:32.4 | opposed to when it started is it's got a history |
| 0:35.0 | so we first met today's guest at the first fully charged life he came over from |
| 0:41.1 | the Netherlands to do a talk about marine engine. He's a marine engineer and |
| 0:46.2 | about marine engineering and batteries and electric shipping and all those things, really interesting |
| 0:52.0 | stuff that was back in 2018. and all |
| 0:55.0 | remarkable because of his age, |
| 1:00.0 | and this is all remarkable because of his age. Company is found is doing incredibly well, |
| 1:02.0 | but it's kind of moved from hardware to software |
| 1:05.1 | and it's a really interesting transition and what he's achieving is really remarkable |
| 1:17.1 | You just think of the amount of times you've seen on a building site, a pop festival, an event somewhere around the back. You probably haven't seen seen because I've done loads of those events |
| 1:23.7 | what you always see in the corner is a massive truck huge thing parked up going |
| 1:28.6 | hoo you can only just hear it because it's silenced down. That is a diesel generator or a diesel |
| 1:35.6 | jet set which is producing the electricity on a remote place like a festival is a |
| 1:41.1 | classic example to run it and now no one needs to do that anymore |
| 1:45.7 | and it's a brilliant business scheme and a brilliant piece of software engineering |
| 1:51.2 | and it's just so clever. |
| 1:52.6 | So this man is called Peter Paul Van Vost. |
| 1:55.3 | He runs a company and I'm going to try and pronounce this in the Dutch way. |
| 1:58.4 | Schoon. |
| 1:59.6 | Which we would say Schoon, with the way it'sauboo n if you actually have a look at |
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