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Greenpeace's Rolling Sunlight mobile solar power array has been touring the streets of the Rockaways this week, enabling residents to charge their phones and other devices.
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Chowdhury, who formerly headed up IT for the Grameen Bank, describes what happened in off-the-grid Bangladeshi villages when her team put solar power and mobile technology into the hands of illiterate women.
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ReGenerators are ruggedized mobile and transportable power systems that use solar, wind, and battery power to provide uninterrupted power to replace or augment fossil fuel generators.
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Such a grid is being tested at the army's model forward operating base (FOB) in Fort Irwin, California, along with prototypes of a mobile, hybrid power station that combines solar panels and wind turbines with a conventional generator.
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Mobile product manufacturers have looked at solar energy for some time, as consumers demand more battery power from portable devices.
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In another financing solution, Simpa Networks provides solar power in rural India on a pay-as-you-go service through mobile payments.
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Last November Econet launched the Econet Power Station- a revolutionary solar power device which will allow individuals and families across Africa to light up their homes, charge their mobile phones and generally utilize energy at a relatively inexpensive cost compared to current solar energy devices currently available in Africa.
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