Posts Tagged ‘power’

Solar-Powered Temperature Sensor

In case you’ve not heard, there is a Green Revolution in progress. To quote a popular commercial, “The way we use energy now can’t be the way we use it in the future. It’s not conservation, or wind, or solar or Acer BTP-44A3 BTP-58A1. It’s all of it.” I have long kept a solar-energy project [...]

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Samsung’s Blue Earth: First Solar Powered Touchscreen Phone

With a body made from recycled plastic, a solar panel for power on the back, an ‘eco-mode’ energy-saving setting, and a built-in ‘eco walk’ pedometer for calculating how much CO2 emissions you’ve saved by walking to Sony PCGA-BP2EA, the Samsung Blue Earth cell phone just set the bar for eco-friendly phones very high.

Blue Earth is [...]

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Conserving Battery Power

Conserving Battery Power
Perform the following actions to conserve battery power:

Connect the computer to an electrical outlet when possible because battery life is largely determined by the number of times the battery is used and recharged.
Place the computer in standby mode or hibernate mode (see [...]

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