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  • This episode of Dnews is brought to you by BASF, THE Chemical Company.

  • The sun is cool and all, but is there a way we can use it to make our lives better? ..It

  • just dawned on me.

  • Hey guys, Tara here for Dnews - and I apologize for that awful pun earlier. It's a sickness

  • and I can't stop.

  • Anyway, we've been talking a lot lately about simple things you can do at home to decrease

  • your carbon footprint. Recently I showed you how to start your own backyard compost, and

  • today - I'm gonna be talking about solar power.

  • Now typically when people hear solar power, they think of solar panels - which are great

  • for the environment. But they're also expensive and complicated to install.

  • But that's ok - because it turns out, there are tons of solar-powered devices out there

  • - that don't require installation, that you probably never even knew existed.

  • A keyboard, for example, is something almost everyone uses - and Logitech makes one that's

  • reasonably priced and runs on solar power. What's even cooler about this one, is that

  • you don't need natural sunlight to charge it. Any light source will work, including

  • a desk lamp. And it has great reviews, too - one person on Amazon said they kept it in

  • a dark room for several months, and the power level never dipped below 100%, which is pretty

  • insane when you think about it.

  • Another product that's nowhere near as useful as a keyboard - but interesting, nonetheless

  • - a solar-powered bikini! For the person who has everything, except shame. This was created

  • by Brooklyn-based designer Andrew Schneider, who spends around 80 hours on each one, hand-stitching

  • hundreds of strips of photovoltaic film together with conductive thread. Of course the downside,

  • is that you can't actually use it in water, but hey - if checking Facebook at the beach

  • is THAT important to you, you can always custom order one through his website.

  • For a less girly product, a company called Husqvarna makes a line of solar hybrid robotic

  • lawnmowers - like Roombas, but for your yard. These are pretty pricey, around $2-4K, BUT

  • their list of features is pretty damn impressive. They can be used at night, in the rain, on

  • steep hills, on uneven grass - and did you notice they look like mini-Batmobiles?! If

  • your dream is to own a Batmobile, and you have 4,000 dollars lying around - it would

  • be downright irresponsible of you, not to buy this. Yeah. I said it.

  • All the money in the world can't buy this next product - but that doesn't make it any

  • less amazing. A pair of Swiss aviation pioneers recently unveiled the Solar Impulse 2, a single-person

  • aircraft powered entirely by the sun. The surface of the plane is covered with 17,000

  • solar cells, and custom-made lithium batteries store that energy for nighttime - making it

  • the only plane in the world with unlimited endurance.

  • To raise awareness about clean energy, its creators will attempt the first 5-day, non-stop

  • flight around the world in March 2015. And since I know you're all wondering - yes, the

  • seat does double as a toilet. God the future is incredible.

  • And hey, speaking of great inventions - Discovery Digital and BASF are teaming up once again,

  • to get kids to use their imagination and demonstrate their knowledge of all things science.

  • Children in grades K-8 are encouraged to submit a 2-4 minute video about an educational and

  • creative science experiment related to chemistry, sustainability, innovation, technology, or

  • energy.

  • One Grand Prize winner will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and an iPad, along with

  • a Stuff To Blow Your Mind prize pack. All you have to do to enter, is submit your video

  • to stufftoblowyourmind.com/science-awards by May 23rd.

  • The winner will be announced June 6th, and the winning experiment will be featured on

  • StuffToBlowYourMind.com - so if you wanna be internet famous while spreading the gospel

  • of science, be sure to get your videos in by May 23rd.

  • That's all for me, but as always - you can check out more videos of Dnews by subscribing

  • here.

This episode of Dnews is brought to you by BASF, THE Chemical Company.

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    Cheng-Hong Liu 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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