Phone charging station gets upgrade

Got Wind has some fun tricks up its sleeve. Last year at the Glastonbury Festival -- a massive music and performing arts festival in the United Kingdom -- phone service provider Orange and renewable tech creator Got Wind provided a tent-mounted, wind-powered phone charger.

This was a pretty awesome setup, considering that the event is off in the boonies and cell-phone charging stations would be in demand. But this year, the team plans to dwarf last year’s charging pod.

The new pod will stand nearly 23 feet tall and host a wind generator and solar panels that will generate enough electricity to charge up to 100 mobile phones an hour and store any leftover energy in its battery tank.

With thousands of people attending the festival, the team thinks they’ll be pretty busy. And the newer recharging pod is still only a test for bigger, more powerful stations to come.

I can definitely see stations like this being useful at any large event where outlets are scarce.

Via TreeHugger, Got Wind, REchargePod