Portable solar chargers have become relatively cheap and readily available and can be a lifesaver, if you need to load your phone or tablet in displacement. For the Marines in the field, the devices can be literal rescuers: troops rely on a multitude of electronic devices to do their job and, normally, transported to batteries with them (3-4 days). That creates a lot of weight on individual navies; It also creates a higher demand for supply convoys which may come under attack by insurgents, who, traditionally, fuel generators have served as the only recharge option.
But a lightweight and flexible solar panel is resistant to the requirements of the battle? Body decided to discover and started testing these devices in environments of formation in summer 2010. This year, the company of the Indies (company I, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment) were taken in real combat situations in the Sangin Valley the Afghanistan. The results are positive: Marines were able to keep their devices running and dramatically reduce the amount of replacement batteries that they should wear.
Portable chargers are an element of a wider drive for renewable electricity in the Marine Corps: the same company also experimented with large solar panels to their base of operations, and the body hopes that the success they saw with small and large solar technologies moves worms their long-term goal of requiring deploy fuels mobility by 2025.
Oorah! Watch the video above for more details on the experience of the company of the Indies with solar energy and let know us if you have other ideas about how the marine (or other branches of the army) could operate more efficiently with renewable energy technologies.
Jeff McIntire-Strasbourg is the founder and editor of sustainablog, where he wrote generally less martial matters, such as green building and the bicycle culture.
Posted on May 13 in Sun products by guest author.
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