SOLAR forum: Public solar charging station
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This is pretty cool. A team of Serbian students formed a company called Strawberry Tree. They developed a prototype public solar electronic device charging station. Comes in handy if your home is off the grid. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein ~ All Things Plants, SOUTHWEST GARDENING ~Cubits.org ENERGY & POWER |
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| Reminds me of a story from Kenya that I heard on NPR. A young woman who sold goods at the market half a day's walk from her home would use her phone to learn about when market days were and what conditions were. Problem was she would need to charge her phone weekly. And to do that she would walk half a day to a small town with a bus station. Then ride the bus for two hours to get to a town where a friend lived who had electrical power. She would sleep over and recharge her phone, then go back the next day. In essence, two days per week of her life were consumed recharging her cell phone. Then she bought a solar-powered charging station and got two days per week of her life back. Sometimes solar is the best solution. |
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| Like this story a lot! Wonderful! I'm leaning toward concentrating on solutions they can be supported by the attributes of any given region. Hydro in abundant rainfall, solar in deserts, coal in Alaska.... Please see Jon (Magpie's) comments in the Natural Gas and Coal Forum. Solutions will varying per region, I think. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein ~ All Things Plants, SOUTHWEST GARDENING ~Cubits.org ENERGY & POWER |
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| I agree. And solutions will vary with the type of problem that fossil fuel is now used to solve. For example, solar thermal or solar electric would be a crappy technologies for solving space heating problems near the arctic circle where it tends to be dark when it is also cold. Conversely, in high elevation desert regions where it gets cold at night and hot during the day, design techniques can control of how sunlight is admitted to a building and employ thermal mass to release it later on. Such passive solar design techniques can prove effective in the reducing the amount of fuel used by HVAC systems for buildings. And they frequently do not add much to the cost of the building. |
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