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Arctic Solar Robot
Filed in archive Edge Technology , Future , Solar by michael on May 15, 2006
Arctic Solar Robot
Reported By: SassPeress.com

"The amazing thing about what's going on in the solar industry is that all kinds of new applications are surfacing, and will continue to surface for two main reasons: people have discovered that solar WORKS as a power renewing source and new technologies will soon emerge to permit new recharging capabilities never before thought of.

In the case of the solar robot, aka "Cool Robot," this device treks across the arctic being recharged by solar cells on all four sides (given the angle of sun it makes perfect sense to put them on the sides as well). It is an autonomous robot which is designed for summer use in the antarctica and Greenland. While the army is obviously testing this to permit autonomous drones to lead the next invasions and be repowered each time the sun shines (I can now imagine the enemy developing solar blankets that can be thrown over the solar drones as a response!) the fact remains that from the armed forces experiments can come so many other great uses for such a device. Moving telemetry, weather stations, etc, could all be recharged and moving at the same time."

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