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Feel like power outages are happening more often? You’re not imagining it. Power outages are up 64% across the US since the early 2000s.
This comes from demand surges, weather events, and utility companies enacting shutdowns to mitigate wildfire risk. Even with average outages lasting less than 12 hours, that’s long enough to spoil a fridge, ruin critical medicine, cancel a work day, and disrupt routines you rely on.
With the grid less reliable, we need a way to make our families and homes more resilient. The current options out there are either super expensive, rely on noisy and gassy technology, or are bulky and require you to react and set up in the moment. That’s why we made Backup by BioLite.
Backup takes the complicated, time-consuming, expensive world of home energy backup and transforms it into a single simple step. Protect your most important appliances – and your most important people – with instant, automatic backup that is designed to disappear into existing layouts.
Make your home more energy resilient, one room at a time.
Backup is a super smart, super slim battery system that plugs right into a wall outlet, creating a safety net between critical appliances and the grid.
When the grid is working, Backup lets power from the grid flow through seamlessly to your devices, not touching the energy stored in the unit. When the grid goes down, Backup detects it and automatically kicks on, instantly providing power to plugged in devices from its reserve supply.
The integrated app (more on that later) gives you a real time readout on power remaining as well as the ability to remotely activate and de-activate the ports built into Backup.
As of October 10th, this project has raised $732,000 of their $100,000 goal. This project has 8 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $1,229, you will get one backup core. For a pledge of $2,099, you will get one backup complete. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/biolite/backup-by-biolite?
