But most consumers would be happy to allow two-way communication between their homes and thepower company, provided their own fingers were ontheswitch.
After utilizing all eight watts of lithium-ion battery power, recharge theSwitch 8 onthe go with the portable Nomad 3.5 Solar Panel in about six hours or from any USB source in less than four hours.
Did they continue to switch between Aero and Classic look whenever the device switched between being on main power and battery power, or did they settle on one user interface?
"If you switchon a cellphone on board, and there's no network, it will gradually increase thepower it's transmitting because it's trying to get hooked on a network which doesn't exist, " he said.
And I heard an interesting comment the other week from someone connected with grid issues - that the engineers like to have a bit of wind power in the mix because wind turbines are the easiest thing by far to switchon and off.