{"id":4667,"date":"2011-06-11T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:50:38","slug":"tech-dreams-solar-powered-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/tech-dreams-solar-powered-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Dreams: Solar-Powered Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4668\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/345381_ZhYN65lx7C8vHbKGa_bPUQ38Z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/345381_ZhYN65lx7C8vHbKGa_bPUQ38Z-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"solar_powered_laptop\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/345381_ZhYN65lx7C8vHbKGa_bPUQ38Z-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/345381_ZhYN65lx7C8vHbKGa_bPUQ38Z.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Coroflot<\/figcaption><\/figure>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s far from being a reality, but an Italian product designer has a vision for solar-powered laptops.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Luce Solar Panel Powered PC is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coroflot.com\/andrea_ponti\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Ponti<\/a> would be powered by two solar cells, one behind the monitor and the other under a keyboard, writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getsolar.com\/blog\/solar-powered-computer-could-become-greenest-laptop-ever-made\/17912\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+getsolar+%28The+Solar+Homes+%26+Solar+Installers+Directory+Blog+|+Getsolar.com%29\">Get Solar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ponti is an industrial designer whose research is focused on international projects between Italy and Japan; his design portfolio is nothing short of impressive (check out his amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coroflot.com\/andrea_ponti\/Life-Sustainable-Water-Container\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Water Container<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Energy conversion and battery life are the key elements that need to be improved to make this product a commercial reality. But as the Get Solar article points out, there is a technology called electronic ink display that is very energy efficient and which could provide the answer for it.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the closer you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/archives\/solar_power_energy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">solar power<\/a> experience at the laptop is sitting at a cafe on a sunny day with a cup of coffee. Luce, however, is definitely a snapshot of things to come. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s far from being a reality, but an Italian product designer has a vision for solar-powered laptops. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,33],"tags":[923,922,921],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-solar-power","tag-high-tech-gadgets","tag-inventions","tag-solar-powered-laptop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9311,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}