Top 3 Solar Chargers

    Solar battery chargers are about more than just saving energy, they are also very convenient and are cutting edge technology. Which are The Best Solar Chargers? Here introduce the top 3 solar chargers.

    Solio Universal Hybrid Solar Charger Solio, the Universal “Hybrid” Charger is powerful enough to charge all of your handheld electronic products at home or on the move, anywhere under the sun. Solio is a Hybrid because it can accept power from either the wall socket or Sun storing this energy within Solio’s internal rechargeable battery. When fully charged Solio can store enough power to charge a typical cell phone or an iPod Nano at least two times. With this solar charger you can charge: Cell Phones, iPod / MP3 players, Smart Phones / PDA’s, Game Players, GPS’s and Digital Camera’s. Solio will charge your device at the same rate as your conventional charger. Charging Solio’s internal battery takes 8-10 hours of direct sunlight. When charging a cell phone directly from the sun, 60 minutes of sunlight will provide approximately 25 minutes of talk time and ten hours of standby time. If you run out of sun but have a conventional power source nearby you can use the included wall adapter, Solio will fully charge in approximately 4 hours.

     The Freeloader 8.0 solar charger is especially useful for the iPod, which it can power for 18 additional hours or a PDA, which it can power for 22 hours. The solar charger comes in cool silver or hot pink plus USB and miniUSB adapters as well as nine other types including Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia and LG phones. The Freeloader 8.0 has two especially sensitive foldaway solar panels that can charge your devices even on cloudy days and it will even recharge its own batteries at the same time it charges peripheral devices. The Freeloader also has the option for users to buy an enlarged solar panel, called the Supercharger, which reduces recharge time by half.

     SRESKY solar battery charger SBC-06. It will provide free and clean solar power to charge your mobile phone. With it’s attachable suction pads you can stick it to a smooth surface or a window. When you require a reliable backup power supply in remote places or simply want the convenience of being able to recharge your mobile anywhere, this is the unit you will turn to. Supplied with 4 mobile phone adapters for most models of  Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony-Ericsson. The internal battery can also be charged from a PC’s USB port using the supplied cable. It has three voltage levels to meet different charging requirements, most mobile phones use 5.0 volts, cameras and other portables may require the 5.5V and 9.5 volt outputs, always verify the output voltage on your AC charger first.

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A Brighter Future With New Solar Panel Designs

The use of solar panels in residences has proved to be the best and most cost-efficient alternative for utility power. However, the use of solar power has yet to reach its full potential in the residential market.

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The use of solar panels in residences has proved to be the best and most cost-efficient alternative for utility power. However, the use of solar power has yet to reach its full potential in the residential market. Recent advances in technology can possibly change this, as the industry has seen opportunities to create solar panels with new designs, in terms of both aesthetics and functionality.

Aesthetically-pleasing designs

Solar power has only recently been given a great deal of attention. As a result, residential homes built 10, 20, or 30 years ago were not constructed in such a way that solar panels could be later added if the resident family decides to install some.

Previously, solar panels were very thick and had to be mounted with out-of-place brackets on top of existing roofs. Fortunately, the solar panel manufacturer industry has recently realized that poor aesthetics is one of the main reasons why solar power has not completely made its way into the residential market.

New panels are hardly noticeable. The tiles are seamlessly integrated into the existing roofs of residential homes, which achieve a very elegant look. The rise in number of solar installations in the U.S. rose by an amazing 45% in 2007 is widely attributed to the creation of more aesthetically-pleasing panel designs.

There are a number of companies that have already come up with more aesthetically-pleasing solar panel designs. The Sun Power Corporation, for example, the leading U.S. solar panel manufacturer, has created some panels that are compatible with Mediterranean-styled clay tiles and flat roof tiles. Lumeta, another manufacturer, has design panels that are awaiting industry certification.

The panels made by both Sun Power and Lumeta are made from silicon. The market will soon see thinner panels made of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). As of now, however, such panels are less efficient than the currently existing silicon ones. Sometime in the near future, these thin-film panels are expected to dominate residential use by becoming a standard part of the building process.

Highly functional designs

One example of a new, more functional solar panel design is that recently designed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute. This innovative design allows the panels to absorb more sunlight, enabling them to produce up to 60 times more current. This new design makes use of nano-towers that add significant surface area to the solar panels, giving the particles of light from the sun more chances to strike the part of the cell that produces electricity.

However, these new panels still have a couple of kinks yet to be worked out. These new panel designs have too much resistance in their cells, resulting in an inability to generate the kind of electricity needed.

Jud Ready, senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and creator of this new solar panel design, is determined to work on the design and modify its features to resolve the difficulties within it. The US Air Force is currently partially sponsoring the research in high hopes that these smaller and more efficient solar panels will replace old, bulky ones and can eventually be used to power satellites and spacecrafts in the future.

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Solar Ink

What is solar ink? Have you ever heard of it? What can it mean for our future?

There is No Energy Shortage on Earth

There is no energy shortage on earth, there is a shortage in technology to harvest the energy available on earth.

To put things in perspective – the sun delivers more energy to earth in a single day, than the combined population of earth (including the industries) are capable of using in a year.

So why the energy “shortage?”

Well bluntly, the problem has been in the costs of collecting or harvesting the energy provided “freely” by the sun.

Are there solutions on the horizon? Fortunately there are. Alternative energies are being developed and investigated at an increasingly rapid pace.

In fact, the development of solar energy technology is no longer in the phase of “is it feasible?” Its simply a matter of getting it pushed through and implemented. Current research has the primary aim of increasing the effectiveness of solar energy, and reducing the manufacturing cost of solar energy devices.

We have already seen a considerable drop in the prices of PV modules/solar panels. They are no longer used only on space satellites. They are now installed in everyday devices, and have come into common use.

And now, a new solar energy technology is on the verge of a breakthrough. This new alternative energy technology will boost solar power into the mainstream consumer market and it will make it cheaply available for anyone.

Its called “solar ink.”

What is Solar Ink?

Good question. Do you write with it?

No – but you probably could if you wanted to. The breakthrough is that it is actually printable.

Okay, not to confuse you any further. Solar Ink is a new method of dissolving tiny particles of silicon (nano particles, which are only a few atoms thick), into a solution which allows one to “print” solar panels (in extremely thin layers), onto all sorts of materials. It can be printed out by the acre, and is a fast process which would allow a vast quantity of solar paneling to be produced, at only a fraction of the current cost.

A solution such as the one above is exactly what we need in order to rapidly and inexpensively mass-produce solar panels.

The future for solar energy can be very bright – it’s just a matter of what we do with it.

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Solar Energy House – Affordable Or Not

The world is now sky-scraping using the modern start of art technologies. Solar energy house is among one of them. Solar energy house sometimes remind us of first super computers as big as the size of the room but their power was less as compared to mini computers of today. People have too much expectations on solar energy house and those days are not far when solar energy house will become a stunning reality.

In the present day, houses that are using solar energy for power required to have two credentials. Firstly it should be in an area, which gets sunlight almost everyday directly and secondly it doesn’t require too much need of electricity.

Solar panels are huge and cost a lot. Creating electricity through modern solar technology costs nearly $100,000 or more. You can calculate how much and how long it would take to get a return on such investment, people can’t take such fiscal burden.

Solar Energy House Future

Nano-technology is a modern high-class technology on the face of earth, which will change the future of solar panels and cells. Companies are using this technology to create metal covering which collects the solar energy more efficiently as compared to solar cells of today and there are other things too that are using Nano- technology like versions of spray which are under-development. So, what does it has to do with solar technology?

Nano-solar cells will be implanted in every material that is required for building a solar energy house. These nano-solar cells will be found in materials like windows, paints, concretes, and etc. Enabling every part of the home to absorb any and every time even when the sun is not up. Nano-technology will empower the solar cell to absorb the energy even from the infrared rays.

Renovating an older home with solar technology will be a piece of cake. Replacing few things like roofing with solar materials and exterior with nano-solar introduced paints. This technology will convert that very home into a solar core.

With this being done the home will no longer be remain the same, home appliances, households all the things will be implanted with solar energy cells and will be attached with the main energy source. All the things like gardening tools, leaf blowers, lawnmower that requires gas or electricity will work on solar energy.

On learning all these things the question comes in mind is that if building solar energy houses will become reality or not? You’ll find the answer to this question if you go a little flashback, where technologies were still advancing. Like, advancing of computers from super-computers to palm top nowadays, cell-phones and many other things. It’s not that solar energy houses are fictional but they are real only a bit more testing, soon they will become as common as computers or cell-phones nowadays.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Film Cells

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