When revellers at the UK's Glastonbury Festival 2008 later this week need to recharge their mobile phones, they'll have a free and green way to do that thanks to a charging station being set up at the festival by Orange.
Measuring more than 7 meters tall, the free-standing recharge pod is a self-sufficient unit that taps into a wind generator and solar panels to charge as many as 100 mobile phones per hour. It's actually the next iteration of a portable wind charger Orange tested out at last year's festival through a partnership with Gotwind, and will serve as a trial for using renewable energy sources on a larger scale at future festivals. Orange expects the recharge pod will charge thousands of mobile phones over the course of the three-day festival, furnishing power equivalent to what would be needed to power a DJ booth for Groove Armada for 88 hours. The recharge pod will be stationed within the Pennard Hill camping grounds at Glastonbury throughout the weekend of June 27–29, when the event takes place.
Free love is hard to beat, especially if it happens to be *green* free love at a summer music festival. One to emulate as often as possible! (Related: Jeans brand offers hot showers and clean undies.)
Website: www.rechargepod.com
Contact: info@gotwind.org
Spotted by: RK
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I think this is a good idea. Natural and eco friendly. I wonder how strong is the wind speed for the generator to actually work. Are there such devise in the Asia yet?
This is very nice and lovely
l wish to make such in Mbale Uganda Africa and make nice business with the project for Bunabumali http://bunabumalivt.tumblr.com/
Norman | June 30, 2008 4:30 PM