UK Technology Writer Takes His Electronics Off-Grid
Submitted by TreeHugger on Thursday, 31 July 2008No Comment
Image Credit Danny Bird @ PC Pro/Dennis Publishing
British technology writer and TreeHugger emeritus Matthew Sparkes faced a challenge- could he run all of his technology on solar and wind power, even in gloomy London? It turned into an interesting demonstration of how far technology has come but how far it has yet to go.
Matt started with an advantage- he is a crazed cyclist, usually doing 15 or 20 miles a day on his fixie. That was enough time for a HYmini wind turbine fastened to his handlebars to half-fill his phone. (Although I must say that I think it is possibly one of …
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