greentech

Technology to help us go green.


Portable Solar Chargers: Tempting Toys

Solar power and technological gadgets are two things that interest me, and I recently obtained a small, portable solar charger which allowed me to fulfill my dreams of charging my devices with free, universally available power. Well, almost. It turns out that while these devices may be tempting gadgets, they’re […]


Western Digital Hard Drives Go Green

Slashdot has a discussion on Western Digital’s new low-power consumption Caviar GP hard drives – the GP standing for GreenPower. It turns out that not only do the drives save about 10W of power over other hard drives with similar specs, but these drives are some of the quietest hard […]


Solar Plastic?

CNet’s Green Tech blog is reporting on solar company Konarka which has developed what amounts to solar-powered plastic. Flexible solar cells are not new, but this seems to take things a step further in that solar cells would be easily integrated with just about anything plastic. They are not as […]