Portable Solar Tent for Disaster Relief powers cell phones

Clean Technica reports on a new solar shelter called PowerMod that can charge cell phone batteries.

Using Ascent Solar’s thin-film solar cells integrated with FTL Solar’s lightweight fabrics, PowerMod is a bare-bones shelter consisting of a 20×20 foot flexible panel supported in the middle by a single pole.

The output is only 4.5 kilowatt hours per day, but that’s enough to power essentials like lights, fans, cell phones, and laptops, to run refrigeration or AC equipment, or to power up some batteries.

The entire thing weighs a relatively modest 165 pounds. Rounding out the disaster relief picture is a 15-minute, 2-person assembly system.

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