The boat builder specialists have used their marine expertise to develop the PowerCube. Working with a company called Reluminati, PowerCube has been designed as a solution for off-grid energy supply. Whilst the sun is shining, the PowerCube can supply 600 watts of power. As you can see from the photo above, the PowerCube is a beast, but is perfectly suited to military, marine, island camps, construction sites, cell phone towers, and emergency situations.

The PowerCube can also be used in combination with a conventional mains power supply. The unit can charge up when a grid supply is available, and kick in if there’s a power outage. In remote country, this would be a blessing where blackouts are common. The unit can also integrate standard and wind generators along with its builtin solar panels, massively reducing the expertise needed to operate it as a generator.

It does look a little bit like an all-in-one printer, however, it’s a little bigger and a little more expensive. Priced at $27,000 for a small one and $37,000 for the larger version, it’s a hefty investment. As popularity for the generator increases, the cost of manufacture is tipped to decrease with the economies of scale.

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Most solar powered battery packs are pretty small, designed for charging iPods, digital cameras and mobile phones. The XPower Portable Solar Powerpack packs a punch as it’s able to supply 400 Watts of power at either 12V or 120V AC.

The power pack has a 10Ah AGM battery internally, which can be charged with the builtin 5W solar panel, from a vehicle or via conventional domestic mains power. The 3-digit monitoring display indicates when the battery needs to be charged too. Using the solar panel, the run time of a fully charged power pack can be increased by up to 25%.

Unfortunately, the measly 5W solar panel would mean it’d take days to fully charge the power pack by solar power alone.

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