Powertraveller sent me a PowerMonkey Extreme — basically another in their long line of solar-powered big batteries for portable gear — to test. So I decided to give it a quick drowning. Video after the jump.
There’s a lot of energy to be harnessed by that big glowing ball of gas in the sky, and the most obvious beneficiary of that energy are the gadgets that litter our day to day lives. But how do you get the power from the sun to your gadget? This Kickstarter project is quite possibly the perfect answer.
Mark it down in the diaries, folks… Provided the world doesn’t come to a cataclysmic end next year, the UN believes that humankind can get 80 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2050.
Dirt and dust can reduce a solar panel’s efficiency as much as 80%. The solution: solar panels that dust themselves, a trick they’re picking up from their Mars-roving brethren.
