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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 9, 2010 - 11:56pm PT
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Portable Solar rechargeble LED lights . . .
Nokero -- Lights for Life
http://www.nokero.com/index.php
http://www.nokero.com/press.php#va
Coming to a camp, base camp, and expedition tent near you.
I'm thinking I can bend decorative iron bar into a hook like structure that one of these can hang on and that I can easily push into the lawn and place anywhere for a really high quality outdoor light. Better than the designs available at Home Depot etc.
Actually I'm gonna buy a bunch for the house too. Good price. Very cool.
These are nice too for a good looking night-light and ambiance:
Sun Jar: Solar Powered Lamp
http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=50
What I like about these 2 designs are their elegance and simple designs. Fully weather proof and high quality. These can be used for climbing for the main camp, Nokero for bigwalls??, camping, great for the Vanagon, the house, the yard, kid's bedroom night light etc. etc. Both can be very versatile. I like that.
Edit:
Nokero inventor . . .
http://www.nokero.com/about.php
Mr. Stephen Katsaros - Inventor
Denver, CO - Nokero inventor Stephen Katsaros' career is centered around innovation—ranging from product development to intellectual property. These activities have enabled Stephen to license inventions to sports companies (such as Dynastar Skis, K2, HaberVision, etc.) and build a transportation product company (RevoPower -- a motorized wheel for bicycles that gets 200 MPG at 20 MPH). He enjoys developing products and making dreams into reality. Stephen earned a Bachelors of Science Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from Purdue University in 1996 and was a non-degree seeking student at the Bard Center of Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, 1998-1999. As a recognized leader in innovation, Stephen received a B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award in 1995. He is a patent agent registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which has issued several patents for his inventions. Prior Press Coverage includes the Wall Street Journal, Denver Post, C-Spann, Popular Science, Gizmodo, Engadget, T3, Slashdot.org, Discovery, and CNN.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:33am PT
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Thanks, that is exactly what I have been looking for!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:35am PT
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Yeah Buddy
Now you're really coming out of left whacky nutcase field.
You expect us to believe there are "Lights" that run on "Light?" Sure, perhaps they have fairies imprisoned inside that dance when the sun hit them and the dance creates more light?
And dude, if there's that much light around, who needs light? Duuh!
I suppose these magic lights are constructed by Elves in Santa's workshop at the North Pole? What will they do during the winter when there's no light to make more light?
Next thing you know you'll claim that electricity can be made by falling water, fire from the wetness?!
geez
;-)
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 10, 2010 - 12:49am PT
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I know it ... I know.
Yep, I'm really pushing the limits.
Who will believe me?
I will be ridiculed and shunned.
Such is my lot here at the SuperTaco.
Lol.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:52am PT
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Finally!
Someone who has a history of illuminating posts blesses us with eternal light!
J/K LOL!
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:58am PT
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Interesting that the designers assume the people who would buy these
are too stupid to hang the thing so the sun would hit a single solar panel so they put 4 panels on it.
edit: Ok they would work very well near the north or south pole (summer time)where the sun circles the horizon. Unless the batteries are not rated for freezing
temps?
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 10, 2010 - 01:32am PT
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Corniss - most folks don't even know how to deal with solar lighting:
"What? I need to point it towards the sun? Why doesn't daylight just work? This sucks!"
You get the idea...
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bmacd
Trad climber
100% Canadian
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Nov 10, 2010 - 02:34am PT
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Why bother with Solar when there is Quantum energy in abundant quantities everywhere ?
http://www.chavaenergy.com/
"Electric power is present everywhere in unlimited quantities to power the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels." –Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943)
Get serious, go natural ambient, not green, not yellow.
lol ....
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland
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Nov 10, 2010 - 08:14am PT
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locker, you idiot, thats an outboard motor...
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 10, 2010 - 09:44am PT
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bmacd,
Very interesting . . .
http://www.chavaenergy.com/how/our-energy-solutions/
I'll have to really get into this page. They talk a little about what they are doing.
GENERAL BACKGROUND ON CHAVA TECHNOLOGIES:
The new energy technologies harvest the practically limitless sources of ambient energy, such as heat, electromagnetic waves, atmospheric static energy, and Zero-Point Energy (also called ZPE, Quantum Energy, or Vacuum Energy).
For many decades there has been overwhelming evidence from individual scientists and inventors showing a successful conversion of unconventional ambient energy. Such sources exist abundantly on earth and throughout the universe and can be harnessed as usable energy to power homes, businesses, vehicles and devices requiring power.
According to leading scientists and inventors – going back as far as Nicola Tesla – background quantum energy exists in vast quantities everywhere and can be harnessed via electron quantum spin methods.
Tapping into this vast sea of background energy does not challenge any of the fundamental laws of physics related to the conservation of energy (Second Law of Thermodynamics). Rather, these new methods stand on top of our current body of understanding and embrace modern sciences recent discovery of how our multi-dimensional universe works.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Nov 10, 2010 - 09:47am PT
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I bought a bunch of CREE, LED lighting company, stock 18 months ago in the mid-20's. It's now trading above $50/share. It was as high as $74. It's the future in home/business lighting.
That's real.
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jstan
climber
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:27pm PT
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In 2001 a chair in compound semiconductor work at UCSB was filled by Shuji Nakamura a leading GaN researcher. CREE is doing very well with what appear to be VSEL's (verical surface emitting) diodes formed from InGaN deposited on SiC. Heteroepitaxy is a bear since different materials have different atomic spacing and the layers can be highly strained which lowers efficiency as a result of defects.
Epitaxial SiC has been under study for decades in the hopes it could form the basis for electronics able to run at very high temperature. Here I am guessing the SiC layer is an intermediate layer intended to reduce strain in the InGaN. You just never know where research is going to lead.
Go out and look at the high brightness flashlights now available.
When it comes to lighting - everything is changing.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:30pm PT
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In the last 2 years we bought over $30,000 worth of CREE LED products.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:31pm PT
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I see a couple of those dangling off my haul bag in the near future...
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jstan
climber
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Nov 10, 2010 - 12:39pm PT
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Moof:
You may have one strapped to your forehead - already.
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