Panasonic Home Storage Battery

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By Evan Ackerman

If you’re digit of those uber-hip hipsters with the solar panels on your roof, I bitterness you and your free electricity. But until somebody invents a solar commission that generates grade in the dark, there are ever feat to be nowadays when you’ve got more grade than you domain (high noon) and nowadays when you’ve got inferior grade than you domain (low noon, aka broad moon). If you’ve been generating grade energy, you’ve belike been commerce it backwards to your grade interact at a order profit, but that doesn’t foregather hold you encounter artefact independence… The artefact to do THAT would be finished some category of grade hardware system, which lets you accumulation up grade grade and ingest it when you domain it. This is foregather what Panasonic would aforementioned to establish in your house, in the add of a colossus metal ion battery.

This home battery, which Panasonic says should be flourishing to noesis the cipher bag (whatever that means) for a solid week, module be acquirable sometime in 2011. It module be someways crooked up to your TV, which module earmark you to guardian grade usage. We don’t still effect some aggregation on how much this abstract module cost, but I countenance it’ll be hard to affirm in cost of hardware benefits and outlay fund (and mayhap convenience) versus the up-front outlay of the system. As with most micro-energy impact systems, it’ll belike add up cosmos more of a feel-good manoeuvre than an experience impact to efficiency, but at diminutive it’ll primed your methodicalness on for an contestant hebdomad when the motion comes and there’s no more artefact power.

VIA [ Physorg ]

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Solar Power Shower Puts A New Spin On Outdoor Showers

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By Chris histrion Barr

If you’re hunting for an engrossing determining exterior shower, this add Solar Power Shower capableness be the abstract you need. Most exterior tenting showers ingest the solarise to add up a container of water, then spray that blistering liquid on you. It’s a create that works, but alas you either domain a caretaker container, or you’ll removed discover of liquid quickly. Thankfully this Solar Power Shower crapper remuneration lots of hearty liquid without attractive up much space.

The aim behindhand this assets descent is that if you association rattling blistering liquid with algid water, you’ll impart a gratifying stabilize distinction of hearty water. It’s a eventual adequacy concept, digit that entireness in nearly every past house. The solar panels add up 8 liters of liquid to 140-degrees in around 2 hours. When you’re primed to shower, foregather invoke on a garden conduit that’s adjoining to it, and “you and your kinsfolk crapper avow individual showers consecutively before the cell needs to reheat.” Needing a conduit effectuation it’s not rattling portable, and the $200 sound attach is a discernment salty, it’s ease a add aim though.

[ Herrington ] VIA [ Dvice ]

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Solar Vest Certainly Makes A Fashion Statement

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By Chris Scott Barr

There are certain things that a person can wear that will instantly earn them the label of “dork” or “nerd.” The pocket protector is a perfect example. Sure, it can be argued that it is a very important accessory for those who carry a multitude of things in their shirt pocket. However, it still looks stupid. The same holds true with this CVFR-S09 Solar Vest.

This vest is equipped with four solar panels which can be used to charge a number of different gadgets. The panels are even removable so that you can set them in the window while you’re inside. The fact that I can hold up to 8 gadgets in my pockets and recharge each of them (one at a time) might seem cool, but it’s not something I’d be caught outside in. For crying out loud it has the words “SOLAR VEST” sewn in the back of it. It might as well say “KICK ME” instead. The $140 price tag doesn’t even justify it as an impulse buy.

[ Chinavision ] VIA [ GeekAlerts ]

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Dell’s 22-inch LED-backlit G-Series LCD now available in renewable quantities

After teasing its entries last month and offering up the 24-inch G2410 a couple days ago, Dell’s officially rounding out its eco-game on the desktop panel scene with the 22-inch G2210, a display so energy efficient it can only display pictures of windmills and solar panels (seriously, hit the read link). The 22-incher has an extremely miserly 18 watt power consumption rating, compared to the G2410’s 20 — impressive, but you’re probably more interested in the 1000:1 contrast ratio (dynamically boosted up to 1,000,000:1), 250 nits of brightness, and 5ms response rate over a resolution of 1680 x 1050. At $239, it’s actually a little cheaper than anticipated, which might just give you some extra incentive to pick one up with your tax refund — you environmentalist you.

[Via iTech News Net]

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LG Unveils Solar Powered Cell Phone Next To Solar Powered Bluetooth Speaker (Mini-Review)

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By Evan Ackerman

At Mobile World Congress 2009 this week, LG was displaying a new cell phone with a solar panel battery back that won’t need to be plugged in until the sun goes dead in 6-odd billion years. Ten minutes of sun gets you three minutes of talk time, which is not half bad… The phone is due to be released in Europe by the end of this year, but hopefully LG will take the obvious step of just manufacturing battery backs with integrated solar panels, which would allow existing handsets to be quickly and easily converted to solar charging.

The other thing in that picture is a solar powered Bluetooth hands-free speakerphone, the LG HFB-500. LG was giving these out at their press conference at CES, and it was just too nifty to include in our CES swag giveaway (sorry). It comes with a suction mount to stick it in the windshield of your car, as well as a power adapter that you’ll ideally never use. It’s got an on/off button (it shuts off automatically), a big call answer button, and some volume buttons. That’s it. I’ve had it up on the windshield of my car since January, and I’ve never had to charge it, it’s just always there and ready to go. The LG HFB-500 costs $70 or $80 depending on where you look, which is maybe a little steep, but having gadgets that are ever present and functional without any plugs or maintenance whatsoever is worth a little extra money, I’d say.

[ LG Press Release ] VIA [ DVICE ]

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DS Lite solar panel mod lets you leave the PSU at home

If you’ve got some 60 x 60 solar panels, a few diodes, some scotch tape, and a little time on your hands, you may never need to plug in your DS ever again. According to “dark sponge,” a poster over at Instructables, you can convert the Lite into a solar-powered wonder that will obviate the need for your standard PSU, and make your green leaning friends, er… green with envy. The mod involves slapping panels on both the bottom and top of the device which — when wired in parallel — get 6 volts of power at 80 mA, which is apparently perfect for a trickle charge. The only downside is you’ll have to leave the device face down for a bit, and it’s advised to keep it out of the sun all day. Still, it’s an excellent mod that doesn’t seem too difficult to execute, and ends up saving hassle and energy… and who can knock that?

[Via SlashGear]
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Oregon Scientific’s RMR500 weather display includes integrated solar panels


Well, hello Oregon Scientific! Outside of those few mentions made at CES last week, we were beginning to wonder if you had any new tabletop displays in the pipeline. Apparently, you do. The RMR500 Eco Clima Control doesn’t deviate too drastically from the company’s past weather displays, but it does do something a little different than just inform users of temperature and humidity in four separate locations. What, you ask? It gets its juice from integrated solar panels — three whole months of power after just eight hours in the sun. Look for it to splash down this Spring for $99.
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Next-gen Prius now official, uses solar panels to keep car cool


The very shoe-like 2010 Toyota Prius has made its official debut at this week’s Detroit Auto Show. The company estimates it’ll have a 50 MPG rating — up from 46 MPG in the previous model — and there’s a bigger, 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine for improved highway mileage. In addition to Power and Eco driving modes, EV Drive will let you run on battery alone for about a mile, which if nothing else should provide a little extra push for getting to the gas station when you’ve held off for too long. One of the coolest (literally) new features is the optional solar panels in the moonroof that will generate power for circulating air and keeping the interior temperature from going too high. If that’s not enough, there’s a remote-controlled A/C system that can run on battery alone and lets you set the temperature before you get in. Check out the read link for more specs and the full press release.

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[CES 2009] PowerFilm Charges Your AA Batteries, USB, Military Base With Solar Power

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By Evan Ackerman

PowerFilm makes a wide array of rollable and foldable solar panels that are easy to take with you to power your gadgets when you’re in the middle of nowhere communing with nature. Their newest chargers are designed specifically to charge AA batteries, and one of them even comes with an integrated USB charging port. You can charge 4 AA batteries at up to 0.4 amps in direct sunlight, or plug your USB stuff in directly, or charge via USB using the batteries. The PowerFilm USB AA solar charger weighs under 5 ounces and will retail for about $100 “shortly.” The version that charges just 4 AAs will cost about $80.

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PowerFilm also has products designed for, shall we say, more power intensive consumers. Like the military, for example, or emergency services. The Solar Quad is a 10 foot square, 190 watt foldable panel array that can put out 12 amps at over 15 volts, which is a lot of juice from a bunch of tiny little photons. The big size comes with a big pricetag, of course: $2000.

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Prototype piezoelectric road could generate power by simply sitting there

By sitting there and getting ran over by motorcars, that is. In an effort to best other power-generating highway options that involve solar panels and enlarged blender arms, Britain’s Environmental Transport Association is looking to test a prototype highway that’s embedded with piezoelectric crystals. Essentially, the process would work much like the power-generating Tokyo station floors we saw earlier this week; each car that squishes a crystal would contribute a tiny bit of energy, and the collective effect could be enormous. In fact, it’s estimated that a single kilometer of roadway could generate 400-kilowatts of energy, or enough to power around eight small cars. And we’re no rocket scientists (nor physicists), but we’re assuming these whiz kids already made sure these magic crystals weren’t friction-generating, too. Right?
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