Solar Computing » Matt http://solarumpc.com Solar, Ultra-Mobile and Eco-Friendly Computing Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:59:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 14W Solar bag. Useful but expensive. http://solarumpc.com/2008/01/08/14w-solar-bag-useful-but-expensive/ http://solarumpc.com/2008/01/08/14w-solar-bag-useful-but-expensive/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:44:00 +0000 Chippy http://solarcomputing.carrypad.com/2008/01/08/14w-solar-bag-useful-but-expensive/ It looks like Voltaic will be releasing a 14w solar panel bag, a huge step up from their, largely useless, at least for UMPCs, 4W bad. I hope its not a typo as the three-panel setup look exactly the same as before.

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If it really is 14W then I’m interested. Well almost. The design is a little on the ugly side and the price of $559 means I could actually buy a stack of spare Li-ion batteries that, charged, would run a UMPC or one of the new Menlow-based MIDS showing up at CES for a few weeks or more!

This story is from CNet and the author mention in the article that they will be running a story about solar laptops soon. That should be interesting and one to look out for.

Thanks to Matt for the tip.

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