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Solar keyboard charges laptop battery in both natural and indoor light
The two products, however, are very different. Logitech announced on Monday the release of its K750 wireless solar keyboard that charges up inside or out in natural or ambient light.
AU Optronics on Wednesday announced the imminent release of its fully-integrated solar laptop keyboard.
“The two products are different ideas and applications,” Katie Chen, AUO corporate communications representative from Taiwan, wrote in an e-mail interview. “The AUO solution combines touch panel and solar module, with much larger surface area to absorb sunlight. People can carry the solar notebook anywhere they like, at anytime.”
The AUO keyboard does look like a solar sheet with the outline of a keyboard imprinted on it, according to reports.
While it will perform best in sunlight, the AUO keyboard, like Logitech’s, will charge up in ambient light indoors as well, according to reports.
One advantage the AUO keyboard boasts over Logitech’s, however, is its ability to charge the laptop computer.
“The solar power is the backup battery to replace a part of power,” Chen writes. “But in the future, the charging efficiency will increase depending on different solar cell materials.”
This innovation could be the first in an evolutionary chain leading to a fully solar-powered laptop, Chen suggests.
AUO has partnered with SunPower, the largest manufacturer of traditional photovoltaic solar panels in the United States.
The companies announced last month that they had achieved high efficiency in the solar cells produced at their newest plant, nearly 23 percent.
AUO produces computers, televisions and solar panels. This is one of the first integrations of the company’s efforts to hit the commercial market.
“AUO pursues green energy and carbon reduction as a green-service provider,” Chen writes. “The company is already working as a vertical integrator in the PV industry for solar energy solutions. Therefore, we keep a bright eye on designing and creating innovative green products.”
The solar-powered keyboard and laptop are not yet available on the consumer market, but will be displayed at the FPD International in Chiba, Japan next week.
Originally published here.
vincent
Solar Cell and Modules, Photovoltaic Effect
Because of the unstoppable inflation in the price of electricity consumption, many have decided to use alternative energy converters such as solar cells. Solar cell is a device composed of glass laminate, semiconductor wafers and energy storage units used to convert light energy from the sun to electrical energy. These are plates that are usually arranged in series in modules.
Solar cells convert light energy to electrical energy using the photovoltaic effect. In this phenomenon, the photons present in the sunlight pass through the clear glass laminate, hit the semiconductor wafers and allow electrons to move. Because of the special properties of the wafers, electrons tend to move in only one direction, creating a direct current. In the process, the electricity produced can be used immediately and unused energy is stored in batteries.
Production of solar cells and modules has become a fast growing business in cities like Chico, CA. While many are convinced about the cost and energy conservation efficiency of the solar panels, solar system installation is becoming popular for residential, agricultural and commercial powering.
A solar cell used in solar system Chico houses prefer today can be made of different semiconductor materials. The material used as semiconductor determines the efficiency of the solar cell, which is subdivided into reflectance, thermodynamic, charge carrier separation and conductive efficiency. And because the different materials cause the variation in the electricity produced, the cost of the entire photovoltaic device is measured on the materials, or simply on the produced electricity.
Crystalline silicon is the most commonly used material as a semiconductor of a solar cell, because of its efficiency in energy conversion. However, the newest models of solar cells are made of thin films, which replace the usual solar cell offered by solar install Chico services. Thin films reduce the use of silicon and eventually lower the regular price of a solar cell.
Semiconductors can’t be separated with a solar cell. Its use and conduction of electricity in the solar system Chico uses are in some ways similar to its use in computers and memory chips. These semiconductors are found with very high efficiency in producing electrical energy. However, using the same semiconductors found in these gadgets for solar cell entails massive costs.
Originally published here.
Lynn Daven
Portable Solar Charger – Charge Devices With Solar Power
Nowadays, people can’t really live without gadgets. It has been an important part of our lives that our day is not complete without these devices. Losing battery powers in one of the common problems people face since we are not always in an area where we can just plug in our chargers to recharge our devices. But thanks to our smart scientists, who discovered the portable solar charger, this problem with device chargers is solved.
Portable solar chargers are systems where in one can obtain power and energy through the use of sunlight in order to recharge any hand held devices where ever you may be and what ever time of the day. How? You just have to simply plug into you device and point it to where the sunlight is and voila the power of your battery device will be charged in no time.
This works when the internal batteries of the solar charging device is exposed to the sunlight, this in turn will allow the internal batteries of your device to store the solar power. When you plug your cell phones, MP3 players, laptops and other small devices with this solar charger they will automatically recharge. These portable solar charging devices are out in the market and can be readily bought. There are many solar chargers offered so make sure you pick the best for your solar charger.
There is a regular portable solar panel that has a sheet of solar cells with electrical connections. But the only downside of this regular portable solar panel is that it you can only use them literally during the day because sunlight is the main source of energy and power of these chargers. That is why is the use of the regular solar charging device is very limited when it comes to the time you are going to use it.
These solar chargers are very portable because some are designed to be very small and light in weight. One of the most popular designs of these portable solar chargers is designed with three rectangular panels having a length of three inches that is connected and joined with each other. The panels are then exposed and fanned out to generate power and energy from the sun. Another common design of this solar charger is similar to that of a compact mirror. Imagine how light and handy these solar charging devices are? You can bring them anywhere you go and you will not have to worry about losing the power of your batteries when you are not able to access an electric output.
Of course, I will repeat once again that before it gets dark; make sure you have charged your devices. Because what I have mentioned earlier it cannot generate power once the sun is out.
Portable solar charger makes it easy for charging your mobil phone/iphone.
Originally published here.
Brigida Edmunds