09-20-2014, 04:06 PM
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[i]--AND THEN DID YOU SEE THE AD IN WHICH THERE IS AN OUTLET ON THE WINDOW AND YOU CAN PUT YOUR PLUG FOR ANYTHING RIGHT IN THERE.
Plug for anything? Oh my, no. One of those solar window stick-ons that actually made it to market takes 13 hours to charge a little 1300 mAh Li-ion battery. In other words, you could use it as a trickle charger for a cell phone. Not a fast charger, a trickle charger.
Technology is great, but there's a finite limit to the amount of energy carried in sunlight and falling on a given surface. Tiny surfaces capture tiny amounts of electricity.