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Solar-powered LED floodlights bring new meaning to night games

By | June 11, 2010, 5:34am PDT

Summary: Philips is traveling Africa for the next two months to show off the cultural and economic benefits of a new portable solar-powered floodlight that could be used to keep homes and other community areas brightly lighted well into the evening hours. Each floodlight can light up an area of approximately 40 meters by 20 meters. Philips [...]

Philips is traveling Africa for the next two months to show off the cultural and economic benefits of a new portable solar-powered floodlight that could be used to keep homes and other community areas brightly lighted well into the evening hours.

Each floodlight can light up an area of approximately 40 meters by 20 meters.

Philips is promoting the solution as helpful for sports, of course, as you can see by its photo and the video below. But the technology could also help with things like evening classes, to light outdoor markets or for emergency situations.

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Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured speaker about everything from software as a service to IT security to mobile computing.

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MoeFugger 11th Jun 2010
I work with those kinds of batteries. They last from 3 to 5 years and can be tested to see how many amp hours are left in them each year.
You can get motion security solar powered lights at Home Depot or Lowes. They work great and can be put out away from the house where there is no electricity or by a gate or door at a shed.
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frgough 11th Jun 2010
10 hours charging time for one hour of light.

It just really stinks that physics keeps getting in the way of your utopian dreams.
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RE: Solar-powered LED floodlights bring new meaning to night games
fwelsh 11th Jun 2010
@frgough
Maybe you should read about it before spouting off as it gets 8 hours of use out of a charge. Go buy an iLight, I'm sure it will last 10 years on a single charge and be stylish as well.

While definitely an interesting product I didn't see any info on cost or battery life (replacement). Considering the market they are trying to sell to I would think that cost would be a major factor in adoption. Hard to say how well they will do with it.
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MoeFugger 11th Jun 2010
I work with those kinds of batteries. They last from 3 to 5 years and can be tested to see how many amp hours are left in them each year.
You can get motion security solar powered lights at Home Depot or Lowes. They work great and can be put out away from the house where there is no electricity or by a gate or door at a shed.

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