A-Solar Travel Pal

If you do a lot of camping in the summer and likes to travel, hate it when your battery died right before you call your friends, then you need a solar-Travel Pal, a small, light weight, and cute 3in1 solarkit, equipped with USB output, a flashlight and alarm.

Through the solar panel, the internal battery will automatically recharged by the sun. You can use a USB output so you can recharge your cell phone. The A-Solar Travel Pal also features attached flashlight that you can use to illuminate a dark place. The alarm sounds, for example, if you are in  need, loud signal clear for miles around.

Priced at just €29.00, The A-Solar Travel Pal can be recharged by solar power, USB and hand crank.

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Rechargeable Battery Case with Solar Panel for iPhone 4®

The Mobius by Etón, is an iPhone 4 external battery case and protective cover equipped with Solar Panel.

The Mobius operates from a rechargeable Li-ion battery (1800mAh capacity) and can be charged by the solar panel or the micro USB cable.

Retailing for a modest $77.59, this Solar iPhone Case provides up to 25 minutes of talk time per hour of direct sunlight.

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Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant

Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant by Finnish food visionary Antto Melasniemi and Catalan designer Martí Guixé, debuted at this year Milan Design Week.

The Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant is based on the concept of solar kitchen where cooking is by pure solar energy. The Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant rethinks our perception of the kitchen, cooking, food, drinks in relation to nature.

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Liquid Solar Array by Sunengy for Tata Power

Australian solar power company Sunengy has partnered with India’s power utility Tata Power for the pilot plant of Liquid Solar Array (LSA), a floating-on-water solar technology.

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Solar Bottle Bulb in Philippines

Millions of poor homes in Philippines – and a lot more around the world – in the dark because the metal roof block all light and no connection to electricity in informal settlements.

A student of MIT found that one-liter plastic bottle filled with water and bleach and then mounted on a metal roof is a simple way to light homes that have no electrical connectivity or natural lighting. It was called Solar Bottle Bulb.

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Moonlight – A Solar-Powered Lantern in Cambodia

A simple geographical background, Cambodia is an ASIAN country. In Cambodia, more than 70% of the native population has no access to grid facilities. After sunset it will be very difficult for people in Cambodia to perform everyday activity, such as cooking, reading, eating, etc.. They used kerosene lamps that are expensive and risky for a fire due to the high content of wood in the house they make. Moonlight, a solar-powered lantern has been designed to remove or provide an alternative source of electricity and kerosene lamps.

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Solar Powered Reverse Trike by Farrukh Khan

Designed by Farrukh Khan, Solar Powered Reverse Trike is an eco-friendly vehicle harnesses the sun as a source of energy. The solar panel located on top of the vehicle charges the battery and then transforms the energy into electric ride.

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Dunhill Solar Charger

Luxury fashion and accessories label Dunhill has launched a solar mobile phone charger, the Dunhill Solar Charger.

Description from Dunhill:

This technical device is engineered from lightweight and durable aerospace grade aluminium and fits neatly into its Chassis leather carry case. It will provide up to 30 hours of charge time for a mobile phone or mp3 player, and the device itself can be recharged using the built in solar panel or via a computer USB.

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Solar Handbag by Difuss

Danish design studio Difuss has introduced solar-powered handbag for girls containing about 100 smaller monocrystalline silicon solar cells on the surface of the bag resembles of beads. Handbag designed in a way display copper wiring and solar cell panels for maximum sun exposure. The energy generated is transferred to the lithium-ion batteries hidden in a small compartment in the bag. It can easily charge mobile devices in the bag.

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Things You Should Know About Solar Kits

One of the answers to the energy crisis is to apply solar power. Solar power is the energy source of the most powerful and freely available to us now. That is why production of solar energy kits more abundant.

Solar energy kits is slowly taking place in most of the different houses in the world. Householders feel easy, convenient and effective to obtain energy from the sunlight.

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Outdoor Solar Lighting – Overview

Solar powered lights will provide all you need to light the yard, deck, or garden with a very easy and efficient. Many people now use solar lighting to decorate and lighting outside the home. Solar lighting is easy to install and can truly add elegance and style of your house outside. Outdoor solar lights are easy to install and will also help conserve household energy use and very safe to use because you do not need to use cable and cord.

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Solar Swimming Pool

Shallow water in a pond or lake tend to be more heat than the water that is in a deeper place. This occurs because the sun can warm a basic pond or lake in the area that is more shallow, and that means water that is above become hot.

With the same principle, the sun can be used as a water heater in the building and swimming pool. Most of the water heating system that uses the sun as a source of heat, consists of two main parts: the sun collectors and storage tanks. Collectors that are commonly used flat plate collectors. Collector consists of thin flat box with a transparent top cover part and facing towards the sun. Small pipes that is in the box bring liquids, which can be water or other liquids, to be heated. Pipes is paired on the black plate that serves to absorb heat from the sun. After a heat form in the collector, the liquid is in the pipes will be hot.

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Solar Powered Studio

Partnered with Solar Power, Inc., Twentieth Century Fox remodel its Century City Studio to eco-friendly building. Solar Power, Inc. has completed the installation of 160 kW photovoltaic (PV) solar system (produce enough power to supply the equivalent of up to 150 homes).  It was mounted on Fox Studio’s historic Building 99 using Solar Power’s SkyMount commercial rooftop system, as well as conventional racking.

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Solar Training

The New Economic Stimulus Plan will make solar installers one of, if not, the fastest growing job in the United States. In fact, the need for solar installers, trained, professional installers will increase exponentially in the coming year, and beyond beyond of the tremendous financial and social support for renewable energy. If you are going to cash in on this new, increased demand for green-collar workers, you will need the proper solar training.

Solar training is critical because solar energy is such a broad, deep and often misunderstood topic. Sadly, there is a ton of information available on solar energy on the internet and in books, but a lot of this information may be false, or outdated, and, the true information is scattered across hundreds, or thousands of sources that could take years to sift through and put together. This is where a good solar training course comes in.

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Using the Sun for Power – How It Works

Executive Summary about Sun Power by Richard Chapo

Generating electricity from the sun is all about converting sunlight into power. The technology behind solar systems is known as photovoltaic technology. Essentially, this technology involves using sunlight to create a chemical reaction. This process creates a direct current of electricity. The electricity is then converted to usable alternating current electricity and stored in a battery or fed into a utility grid system.

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