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Solar Powered PC for 2010 – Pt2

Published on February 22, 2010 By Steve Chippy Paine

In my last post I wrote about the Viliv S10, a super-efficient Windows-based PC that would serve well for solar-powered work duties. Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona I tested out another interesting bit of kit. This one looks much the same but in terms of internals, it’s like chalk and cheese compared [...]

Alternative energy for the tour.

Published on August 18, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

Frank, another UMPC blogger found this… He blogged about it here and called it a ‘European solution.’ He might be right because this year has been a terrible summer. My BBQ rate is down to once a week when it should be at least three times per week! A wind solution would need to be a lot [...]

Countdown on pause.

Published on June 8, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

Just like all the best countdowns, this one is paused for a while. The reason? Taiwan. Both VIA and myself have been non-stop busy since Computex started 4 days ago and we’ve decided to delay for a week. Looking at the weather forecast, its probably a blessing in disguise because cloud and light rain is forecast for [...]

Solar testing on hold.

Published on May 11, 2007 By Steve Chippy Paine

Isnt it typical? Just hours after starting the solar panel testing last week it started to get cloudy. You can even see the first clouds appearing on the sun power graph that I used on the first test. Ever since then the weather has been bad. Look at the last three days below. With weather [...]