For one week in August 2014, 20 specially commissioned performances by visiting artists and local residents were broadcast live from Outlandia, a unique artists’ tree-house studio at the foot of Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain.
The studio’s remote location makes it a distinctive place to transmit from. It also means that there is no connection to the National Grid and this presented the event organisers with the challenge of getting a temporary power supply to the isolated tree house in order to support the broadcasting equipment. Traditional generators, which rely on diesel or petrol combustion engines, are noisy and this would interfere with the quality of the sound recordings.
BOC, the UK & Ireland’s largest supplier of industrial gases and related equipment, and a member of The Linde Group, provided this unique event with two Hymera generators, each supported by a lightweight cylinder of hydrogen, a perfect solution for its temporary power requirements.
At 45 decibels, the Hymera portable generator is extremely quiet. Incorporating ground-breaking hydrogen fuel cell technology that produces electricity, it’s also environmentally friendly, producing water as the only by-product.
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