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it will NEVER be efficient to integrate these two technologies. A phone is something you carry in your pocket, a solar cell is something you leave out in the s
by nazgulnarsil 14y ago
it will NEVER be efficient to integrate these two technologies. A phone is something you carry in your pocket, a solar cell is something you leave out in the sun all day.
- Alaskan005 14y agoYeah but it could recharge a small battery and that can recharge a puny phone.
- nazgulnarsil 14y agoThat's exactly my point. Efficient solar cells being mass produced cheaply will be world changing, but no one is going to try sticking one on a phone unless they're a little dim. You have a solar cell at your home/town center that you recharge at.
- Alaskan005 14y agoI am too lazy too look but I remember reading a story where an $80 or so solar panel system (with some sort of battery, no doubt) from China enabled villagers in Africa to turn a light on at night and maybe recharge a phone. Simple but life changing. When you have very few things, people get creative. In USA for example for the most part mechanics change a car part with a new one, in the third world they open it up, fix and get another decade out of it.
- tangue 14y agoDidn't think about that. The second part is still valid though : having the electricity is the exception rather than the norm in most parts of Africa.
- rmc 14y agoDepends what you mean "having electricity". Here's 3 cases: (a) Have electricity at home (b) No electricity at home, but have access to charge a phone at a shop/workplace/friend/neighbour (c) None of the above.
- veidr 14y agoBut what if somebody invented some kind of flexible and detachable tubular device, perhaps housed in a durable rubber, that contained some type of metal filament that was capable of transmitting electrical signals from A to B?
- primitur 14y agoIn sunhsine-blessed countries, one does not have a pocket, and indeed I would be happy of my iPad-New if it were light, thin, and would recharge itself while I used it for shade ..