TAKEPLACE: POWER JOOS

Monday, January 24, 2011

POWER JOOS

This looks super-cool. I'm totally into it.

I just want to head off in advance the people who think this is "green" because it's solar. The VAST majority of these kinds of devices are used only to charge small things intermittently. They never produce more energy over their lifetimes than it took to make them in the first place.

In other words, buying one is not ecogroovy, the way a well installed permanent solar installation often can be. It is just a neat device.

Get the story BoingBoing

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