Voltaic is also launching today the V39 USB Battery, which provides backup power for iPads, other tablets and smartphones.
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You are referring of coarse to PV(photo voltaic) however, electricity is not the only way to collect and use solar energy.
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In green tech news this week, Voltaic unveiled a new waterproof LED touch light that can be powered by any USB source.
Our pals at Voltaic have been kind enough to provide us with one of their brand new Solar Backpacks to give away.
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Voltaic was founded in 2004 to develop energy solutions using environmentally-intelligent designs.
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In this spirit, Forster says there are now plans to install photo-voltaic solar panels on top of the animal enclosures over the coming year.
Short battery history lesson: in 1800, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile which is recognized as the first chemical battery.
For the executive venturing to extreme locales, where power resources may not be readily at hand, there's the solar-powered laptop bag, built by Voltaic Systems.
Among the first beneficiaries of this fund are Alta Devices (manufacturer of solar photo-voltaic cells), Ciris Energy (developer of cleaner coal), and CoolPlanetBioFuels (which produces clean bio-fuels).
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With the cooperation of the Royal College of Surgeons, he subjected the still-warm body of an executed (though probably wrongly convicted) murderer to the charge of a voltaic pile battery.
Nokero's SunRay Pro Power solar charger is perfect for keeping a cell phone charged, and for every Emergency Power Kit Voltaic sells it is donating a kit to an individual in need.
"Voltaic set out to design a lightweight case that could charge a tablet quickly, but also match the sleekness and simplicity of the many of the tablets, " said Shayne McQuade, CEO of Voltaic Systems.
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When solar entrepreneur Edward Fenster looks across the roofs of photo voltaic panels his company has installed on thousands of homes, he sees not just a source of clean green electricity but also security.
Such experiments were common topics of conversation in the Godwin household, where the philosopher William Godwin played host to scientific wizards such as Humphry Davy, who had used the voltaic pile to develop electrolysis and whose sensationally popular lectures proclaimed that science was poised to unleash powers previously unimagined, and perhaps even liberate the spark of life itself.
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