alt Hacker NewsIt sure would be nice to see some way to harness all this energy falling around us. I'd far prefer to just catch a few rays to charge my toys than plug into some far distant machine.
I remember thinking, in my youth, that the technology that enabled CASIO calculation would one day be applied as well to a bigger Turing machine, but I'm yet to see a solar-powered computer.
I sure wish it'd happen, though. All these magic solar energy storage/conversion systems need to start showing up on SOM/SOC's, imho ..
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I have solar panels at my house. My laptop, phone, and iPad are solar powered (on most days).
you still need too much surface area and too much storage to generate the amount of power needed
absent of a major breakthrough solar will always be a house/grid level technology, which is fine and works at scale
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i can think of a somewhat well-known one, but its uptime is predictably bad https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/