Darn! I left my cell phone charger at home. And luckily, LG is pushing its green initiatives at CES in Las Vegas, so the company has set up a solar- and wind-powered cell phone charging station.
CES attendees can charge their mobile devices in an hour, thanks to eight solar panels producing 880 watts and a Bergey 1-kilowatt wind turbine. “The perception is that green doesn’t mean good performance,” says LG’s Jason Todd. “So we want to show that this station can charge a total of 104 phones at one time form the wind and the sun.”
The station was built by gotwind.org, and gotwind’s Dave Pain was on hand to oversee his baby.
LG has plans to bring the Skycharger station to other trade shows and events, possibly including concert venues, to show people how alternative energies can be used effectively today.
Isn’t this one of the major problems with relying on the wind and sun for some sort of constant? This is where battery power evens it all out. I am waiting for the next greatest breaktrough in battery tecchnology. I believe that a better battery will do more for the green movement than anything else. Then it will be about how we handle all the old batteries, such as recylcing
90 watts? I was at CES today (9th Jan) and it was producing around 300watts from the turbine and 200watts solar!
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Woops, my bad on the 90 watts. That was the total power being consumed by all the chargers—which wasn’t that many.