Seaformatics has created the Water-Lilly turbine; a first-of-its-kind phone charger, that can charge a phone using the simple power of wind and/or water. No sun-light necessary.
The company behind this innovative tool (which is exceptionally suitable for the outdoorsy types among us) is Canadian start-up Seaformatics Systems Inc.
According to its team, Seaformatics “designs and manufactures power harvesting and wireless communication products for the ocean monitoring industry.”
The company aims to provide low-cost, reliable, “real time and long term subsurface monitoring of oceans, rivers and lakes”.
Water-Lilly
So far in its arsenal it has patented the Water-Lilly turbine that harvests power from water currents and wind currents and is suitable for the eco-conscious on-the-go types. The turbine can be connected to your phone via a simple USB cable and uses this harvested energy to charge it.
Required for the turbine to do its job, is a minimum water speed of 0.7 miles per hour. For this the Water-Lilly can harness energy up to 6.8 mph, meaning it will work as well in a trickling stream as it will a rushing river. Similarly, it requires a minimum wind speed of 6.7 mph but can equally work in gusts up to 55 mph.
The device takes only a couple of hours to fully charge an iPhone.
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Who is Seaformatics?
Seaformatics is a Canadian start-up that has had approximately $4 Million invested on the development and testing of its technologies thus far. Other eco-conscious products include; a patented water turbine that harvests power from ocean currents (from which the Water-Lilly turbine was derived), along with “a sensor interface subsystem for data collection and storage, an acoustic modem that enables data communications between units, surface buoys and cellular/satellite network, and a release mechanism for recovery.”
In a troubled time for the planets climate, companies such as Seaformatics are thinking ahead and could be one to watch for the future.
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