Comments on: Voltaic Generator: When Convenience Goes Green http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/01/16/voltaic-generator-when-convenience-goes-green/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:32:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SwissFreek http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/01/16/voltaic-generator-when-convenience-goes-green/comment-page-1/#comment-94316 SwissFreek Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:36:16 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/01/16/voltaic-generator-when-convenience-goes-green/#comment-94316 Maybe it's not oil (but it might be), but I'm pretty sure your laptop battery started running on carbon fuel the moment you plugged it into your wall to recharge. Or nuclear power. Unless you happen to live completely off the grid or are completely fed by wind turbines or something, and then that comment doesn't apply to you. ANYWAY, the point of my comment: don't get me wrong, it's an awesome idea. Stuff like this is how green will catch on (you're hearing that from a person who is one of those "quality-of-life" types), and it will do so by adding features, not taking them away. BUT, I'm a little leary of spending $600 on a bag that will now be more fragile than the laptop within it. The picture looks like it's got a metal frame to it, so I assume these are "old-fashioned" flat glass cells? That being said, fantastic first step, and I hope that people who can afford this thing buy lots of them so that the technology will have the capital to develop further. Maybe it’s not oil (but it might be), but I’m pretty sure your laptop battery started running on carbon fuel the moment you plugged it into your wall to recharge. Or nuclear power. Unless you happen to live completely off the grid or are completely fed by wind turbines or something, and then that comment doesn’t apply to you.

ANYWAY, the point of my comment: don’t get me wrong, it’s an awesome idea. Stuff like this is how green will catch on (you’re hearing that from a person who is one of those “quality-of-life” types), and it will do so by adding features, not taking them away. BUT, I’m a little leary of spending $600 on a bag that will now be more fragile than the laptop within it. The picture looks like it’s got a metal frame to it, so I assume these are “old-fashioned” flat glass cells?

That being said, fantastic first step, and I hope that people who can afford this thing buy lots of them so that the technology will have the capital to develop further.

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]]> By: Who? http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/01/16/voltaic-generator-when-convenience-goes-green/comment-page-1/#comment-93934 Who? Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:46:44 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/01/16/voltaic-generator-when-convenience-goes-green/#comment-93934 Sorry, but when did oil run our laptop batteries? Sorry, but when did oil run our laptop batteries?

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