Solar power

Monaco mobile phone solar charger review: Power cellphones and small electronics with solar-powered battery backup

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Many products today require USB charge cables. While there is no single standard in USB cable size, it’s still much easier today, with fewer proprietary charge cables for a cellphone. For the most part, most cellphones (and many other small electronics) are compatible with these kinds of USB interfaces: USB Mini-USB Micro-USB USB provides a […]

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Solar power with laptops and other small devices is handy, but you won’t save money

A wise frog once said, “It’s not easy being green.” This was obviously said after a solar power equipment cost-benefit analysis. We want to do our part to help the environment, but it would be nice if we could save money at the same time. I had the seemingly brilliant idea, “What if my laptop […]

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Solar Sails – An interview with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

What are solar sails? Solar sails are a creative and unique way to harness the sun’s energy for transportation, requiring no other fuel. Solar sails act just as the name implies: They are a physical sail, pushed by the sun’s energy. The sun constantly spews out a high-energy stream of photons. (Photons create the images […]

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Solar Sails – Science fiction made fact

The description of “solar sail” spaceships smells like science fiction, but taste it: It’s real. Think of a kite. It’s held in the air by a rigid, lightweight frame, kept in the air by the force of the wind. A solar sail spacecraft works much the same way, only instead of wind, the sail is […]

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