Juice Bag Solar Backpack
Pack your own power... everywhere
by Reware (ES-100)
A powerful 6 watt lightweight flexible solar panel integrated into a backpack made from recycled materials... smart outdoor gear!
Well designed
Two interior cargo areas and multiple pockets for phones and other electronics. Wire pass-through to interior and exterior pockets. Room for a laptop sleeve. Adjustable straps. Solar Panels are removable for remote use. Water resistant. Reinforced bottom helps support extra loads like storage battery.
Features
- Flexible, high-efficiency, water proof solar panel for generating on-site electricity anywhere there’s sunshine
- ES Series Juice Bags fabric is made from recycled 2-liter soda bottles. Each bag keeps up to 8 soda bottles out of the landfill!
- All seams are stitched to military specifications for extra strength and durability.
- Easily connect your cell phone, iPod, GPS or other 12 volt unit using your item’s car charger adapter
- Each Juice Bag comes with a universal CLA/Car Charger Female Socket.
- Large main storage area.
- Internal pockets include two internal gadget pockets, and a large mesh pocket for all your wire/accessory storage.
- Secondary independent compartment for laptop storage.
- Two large external side pockets that double easliy as water bottle storage.
- Hide away waist strap.
Engineering a flexible future
No longer do consumers have to rely solely on rigid, heavy, fragile solar panels. Reware thin-film solar panels are made up of 52 micro solar cells. The panel is light, flexible, and extremely powerful. It's the most advanced solar energy technology available today. The panels are water-proof, military-tested, and create no heat or sound. The moment sunlight hits, you're making electricity.
THIN IS IN
Thin film cells are 100 times thinner and lighter than silicon cells. Because they require less semiconductor material than other solar cells, lots of thin film solar cells can be made for less money. However, the thin film cells have a much more complex structure and can be difficult to make, which is why the world is just beginning to see thin film products entering the marketplace. In fact, Reware was one of the first consumer products companies to license the technology of thin film solar.
Reware currently uses thin film based on CIGS technology, which creates more electricity from the same amount of sunlight than do other thin-film PV technologies, and therefore has a higher "conversion efficiency". CIGS conversion efficiency is also very stable over time, meaning its performance continues unabated for many years.
SOLAR POWER
Solar electricity, or photovoltaics (PV) convert sunlight directly into electricity. Commonly known as solar cells, individual PV cells are electricity-producing devices made of semiconductor materials. PV cells come in many sizes and shapes. Crystalline silicon was the first material used in the earliest successful PV devices.
The most common materials used are amorphous silicon (a-Si, still silicon, but in a different form), or the polycrystalline materials: cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium (gallium) diselenide (CIS or CIGS). Juice Bags use CIGS technology because we think it's the best available material at this time.
ES fabrics from Reware...
Did you ever wonder where your recycled soda bottles go?
For most of us, the thought never crosses our minds; we just put the bottle in the Recycling bin and move on. But those bottles matter in the world…they're an excellent source of plastic that can be recycled, and the "polymer" they contain can be used in a wide range of products over and over again.
PET - AND WE DON'T MEAN YOUR CAT FLUFFY
When two chemicals are combined at a very high temperature, they form a new chemical known as a polymer. Plastics are polymers and there are a wide variety of options. The chemical name for the polymer used in our bags is Polyethylene Terephthalate, or PET. PET is used for making everything from umbrellas, to those polyester jumpsuits the Elvis used to wear, to critical medical equipment.
And of course one of the largest uses is for soda bottles.
NEW AND USED
Even today most fabrics are made of virgin PET, or plastics that have never been used before. However, in the 1980s when interest in recycling plastics led to the development of a recycled polyester fiber the chemistry geeks around the world were very excited about. The most common and successful use of this technology has been the creation of Fleece. You probably have a fuzzy jacket from Patagonia in your closet now, or a blanket on the couch. This led to outdoorsy folk, who were sick of being cold all the time, joining the chemistry geeks in hearty song (This is not confirmed, we just assume).
While fleece might be all the excitement you can bear, another cool use for recycled PET is in the woven fabrics we use for many of our bags (and this is where we break into song ourselves...or at least force the interns around here to do so for our utter enjoyment). This recycled fabric has stronger tensile strength than normal fabrics, is soft to the touch, rugged, and just as waterproof as traditional nylon.
How does this fabric come together?
Here's the Nitty Gritty
Making polyester fleece from recycled PET bottles is a significant means to reducing the amount of plastic that is otherwise buried in landfills. One manufacturer estimates that for every meter of polyester fabric made of 80% recycled PET, eight plastic beverage bottles are kept out of landfills. Patagonia, the leading manufacturer of recycled polyester fleece garments, estimates that 25 soda bottles go into each jacket made from the fabric.
Recycling PET into polyester is also alleged to be less damaging to the environment even than growing organic cotton, because cotton leaches nutrients from soil and requires so much open space to grow.
The energy used to make polyester from recycled PET bottles is also significantly less than that needed to heat the chemicals for virgin polyester.
Here is the final key fact to take away: All plastics are made of petroleum and petroleum is increasingly scarce in the world, and therefore getting more expensive. Concepts like PET recycling and use in Consumer products is on way we all can reduce our dependency on oil.
Conclusion
If you're looking for 0000 then this 000 is the right choice for you.
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