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Solar-powered Mesh Project Helps Find New Frog
News A solar-powered wireless mesh network in the Amazon rainforest has played a part in the discovery of a new species of frog. We have lots of mesh networks where the occasional inaccessible mesh box gets power by solar or wind or replaceable battery...
[October 6, 2006, 15:35]
Solar-powered Planes For 3G And Broadband
News A US-based technology firm is planning to launch unmanned solar-powered aeroplanes that would provide broadband Internet access and 3G mobile services to whole cities from 70,000 feet above the ground.
[July 23, 2002, 14:50]
MP Seeks Solar-powered Laptop For Developing World
News A UK MP has proposed a competition for the first company to come up with a solar-powered laptop costing less than £50, intended for use in the developing world. Mr Wyatt is attempting to gather corporate sponsors for what would be the first Babbage...
[October 2, 2002, 11:13]
Solis Energy Develops Solar-powered Wi-Fi
News Someday, you might hook up to the internet through solar power. It also sells a product to run streetlights on solar power. Several US state governments are pushing for increased use of solar energy to cut power consumption and curb greenhouse-gas...
[August 28, 2007, 11:37]
'Green' IT: A Feasible Proposition?
News May has his sights on setting up an autonomous solar-powered hosting site next year. May is the founder and chief executive of Solar Data Centres, a company that bills itself as one of the first hosting outfits powered entirely by renewable energy.
[September 27, 2004, 17:05]
Establishment Wakes Up To Green Tech
News Shafer Vineyards in Napa Valley installed a 129kW solar system, and they are 100 percent solar powered. It's a 100 percent solar powered facility. In Ladera Ranch in Orange County, many home builders are using solar.
[January 30, 2006, 11:20]
Wi-Fi Streetlights Go On Trial
News A Scottish university is trialling solar-powered streetlights which will also deliver Wi-Fi Internet access. The solar panels provide an energy source for the streetlight and also for the wireless connection.
[January 5, 2006, 10:50]
I Have £50 Spare.... How Do I Get One?
Talkback I wish my laptop was solar, foot-pump or pull-string powered! This thing sounds awesome, you get to surf the net, send a few emails and either catch up on your tan or have a workout.
[July 24, 2007, 15:44]
Northern Lights Of Jupiter Screensaver
Downloads These auroras seem, like Earth's, to be powered by the solar wind. The free screensaver, The Northern Lights of Jupiter contains 10 high resolution images. Both Jupiter and Saturn have magnetic fields much stronger than Earth's (Uranus, Neptune and...
[January 28, 2008, 11:01]
Flying The Google Flag For Good Causes
News It launched a program to convert company cars to plug-in hybrids, and it has the largest corporate installation of solar-powered electricity. It plans to invest directly in technologies such as solar-thermal power, wind power and geothermal systems.
[November 30, 2007, 13:48]
Broadband Takes To The Sky
News SkyTower is a young subsidiary of solar-powered vehicles pioneer AeroVironment, which built and designed Helios. Helios-powered broadband service would require customers to buy or lease a satellite dish and a router hub.
[August 14, 2001, 9:45]
CES: Motorola Cranks Out New Power Play
News While Motorola brings its cellular phone expertise to the table, Freeplay offers a wide range of devices, including radios and flashlights that are powered using solar energy or wind-up technology. Though many approaches have been tried...
[January 8, 2002, 14:13]
Gassy Batteries Pump Up The Power
News Some researchers are also working on more efficient solar cells and methane-powered fuel cells. The Cornell team will have to convince the industry that its batteries won't pose a radiation threat since they are powered by decaying isotopes.
[November 14, 2002, 7:53]
Bringing Computing To India's Masses
News Professor Jitendra Shah, from the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing, is examining ways to reduce usage of electricity from the grid by setting up solar-powered computing terminals that tap into battery-powered PCs acting as servers.
[July 5, 2005, 13:40]
Wind-up Phone Charger Lands In UK
News Unlike previous models, Summit is no larger than equivalent battery-powered radios. A foot-powered generator is one such innovation in the pipeline, which will use two of the generators used in the FreeCharge.
[July 17, 2002, 14:51]
Radioactive Laptops? Perhaps Not...
Blog Secondly, while it's true that a tritium-powered battery will eventually turn into an inert, safe lump of nothing much, and while it's also true that a modest amount of shielding will keep the radioactivity within the battery the while, there's...
[October 2, 2007, 12:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There are so many ideas to explore: a desk job encourages indolence and spreading waistline — so have some leg-powered dynamos installed beneath the desk. For example: hard disk drives have electric motors, which are powered via at least eight...
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
NASA Plans Cosmic Internet
News Many of the projects won't yield payoffs until after 2000: For example, the Mars unmanned aircraft would be scheduled to pass over Valles Marineris, a huge canyon on the Red Planet, in 2003 -- on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first...
[February 2, 1999, 16:58]
A Year Ago: NASA Plans Cosmic Internet
News Many of the projects won't yield payoffs until after 2000: For example, the Mars unmanned aircraft would be scheduled to pass over Valles Marineris, a huge canyon on the Red Planet, in 2003 -- on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first...
[February 2, 2000, 6:01]
Passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - A Primer For New RF Regulations
White Papers This is most unlike typical devices that only communicate via RF and are actively powered by any number of methods including batteries, utility power, solar, etc. The following is intended at highlighting some RFID issues with respect to current...
[January 11, 2006, 0:01]
