Wind-Powered Phone Charging Stations at Glastonbury Festival
July 1, 2008 · Print This Article
Attendees at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK last weekend had a cool, sustainable way to keep their cell phones charged up: freestanding wind-powered charging stations. The stations, called ‘Recharge Pods‘, were available free of charge.
Springwise has it:
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.
How awesome! Fun and green, we need lots more of that. This is exactly the kind of thing that gets people (especially young people) excited about sustainability.
Link [Springwise]
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this is awesome and needs to be at all summer events this across the USA!
Definitely a great step towards green planet. Good on all those involved in materializing this idea.