Month: September 2017

You’re at the park on a nice sunny day when Grandma calls, you answer your cell phone and without warning it dies. You forgot to charge it last night; Grandma will have to wait. However, if a company out of China has its way, that would never happen to you again.
Hi-Tech Wealth claims to have successfully created something that cell phone companies around the world have been testing for years, a solar powered cell phone.

The company says that the phone’s solar panel can be charged from the sun or any artificial light source. An hour of being in the light is enough to give you 40 minutes of talk time.

While Hi-Tech Wealth may not be a well known company in the United States, they are one of the top cell phone providers in China. So does this mean the United States won’t be seeing a solar powered cell phone any time soon?

Hi-Tech Wealth holds eight patents on the new device and hopes to start manufacturing the phones for the highest bidder. However, it could be another year before they hit the streets in the United States, if ever.

Who are these phones marketed towards?

If the phones ever actually make it to the United States, it’s likely that they won’t be much more than a novelty. Phones these days can remain charged for days before needing to be plugged in and a phone charger is never far away. But for poorer countries, the solar powered cell phone just may be the device that propels them into the 21st century.

Many rural communities in China still do not have electricity, so having a cell phone has been almost impossible, but now even the most remote towns and villages would be able to communicate via cell phones. Not to mention that the phones could bring the first glimpse of the Internet to many people. In fact, the Chinese Government has already secured and pre-ordered 50,000 units for testing in rural areas.

The S116, their first commercially available solar powered phone, retails for $510 and has already become a hit in China, but to compete in other markets the price will have to drop significantly. Competitors such as the iPhone by Apple, which is slated for a June 29th release, will be sold at a lower price ($499) than the S116.

Source: Hitech Wealth, URL: (http://www.htwchina.com/htwtE/index.jsp)

Presently, the fossil fuels all over the world are diminishing fast and if care is not taken then in the near future we will be left with none. In such a scenario, alternatives have to be found so that they can be used along with the fossil fuels to prolong exhausting the remaining stock. Solar power is one such fuel, which can help in preventing this depletion as it can last forever. Further, using solar energy enables us to cut costs in our electricity bills as well as add worth to our home. It also does not dirty the environment. According to Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, “the subsequent industrial revolution will be founded on clean green technologies”.
Compared to wind power, solar power is silent energy. It does not make a noise like wind power. Further, the only cost involved in solar energy is the setting up charges for panels and related equipments. After the installation of the solar power system, the maintenance required for cells and solar panels is minimal as there are no moving parts involved. Therefore, changing to solar energy gives you the power to save your money and in the process also save the globe.

Solar power is also preferred to wind power as negative affects of wind turbines are becoming more apparent recently. This includes the exploding of bats and birds that stray too near to the units, most probably due to the humming pitch emitted by wind turbines. This fact may make solar panels the only true environmentally friendly power source currently available for home use.

With other options available in the market, some people are no longer interested in getting inflated electricity bills, others prefer to do away with bills totally, and a few are concerned with producing their own power supplies for personal usage, as well as to sell to power departments. It is here the importance of “Do It Yourself DIY” solar panels can be seen. DIY is a straightforward guide that helps us in making our own panels so that we can get renewable energy. By using DIY instructions, you can easily construct your own panels, and save money and the environment in the process. They are the eye-catching guides to solar power’s future. You can always elect to have a contractor do the job for you, but with DIY solar panels you can be living off the grid in an environmentally friendly fashion, and saving cash, for a very minimal start up cost.