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Got Wind has some fun tricks up its sleeve. Last year at the Glastonbury Festival – a massive music and performing arts festival in the Vale of Avalon, England – phone service provider Orange and renewable tech creators Got Wind provided a tent-mounted wind-powered phone charger – a pretty awesome set up considering that the event is off in the boonies and cell phone charging stations would be in demand. But this year, the team plans to dwarf last year’s charging pod.
The new pod will stand nearly 23 feet tall and host a wind generator and solar panels that will generate enough electricity to charge up to 100 mobile phones and hour, and store any leftover energy in its battery tank. With thousands of people attending the festival, they think they’ll be pretty busy. And the newer recharge pod is still only a test for bigger, more powerful stations to come. I can definitely see stations like this being useful at any large event where outlets are scarce.
Via TreeHugger, Got Wind, REchargePod
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written by Green Gadgets, June 20, 2008
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written by Clinch, June 21, 2008
But I expect the wind turbine will be constantly spinning.
Now if they could only harness the power of the rain...
(also, I live near Glastonbury [but not too near])
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Now if only we can use that same technology for our everyday energy needs rather than just a mobile unit at big events. I like where this renewable bandwagon is going.