Solar NIVEA Ad Charges Your Cell Phone (VIDEO)
June 14th, 2013 by Zachary Shahan
One of our readers passed this one along to me. The big takeaway point from it for me is that solar is becoming mainstream. When you’ve got companies like NIVEA using solar power for gimmicky ads like this, you know you’re getting there. And, actually, the solar ad featured in the video below may really be useful for a number of people — people who don’t want to leave the beach but really need their cell phones to be charged up. I grew up on the beach (prior to the age of cell phones) so it’s hard to imagine “needing” a cell phone on the beach, but I know that cell phone addiction has gotten pretty big….
Thoughts?
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Zachary Shahan is the director of CleanTechnica, the most popular cleantech-focused website in the world, and Planetsave, a world-leading green and science news site. He has been covering green news of various sorts since 2008, and he has been especially focused on solar energy, electric vehicles, and wind energy since 2009. Aside from his work on CleanTechnica and Planetsave, he's the founder and director of Solar Love, EV Obsession, and Bikocity. To connect with Zach on some of your favorite social networks, go to ZacharyShahan.com and click on the relevant buttons.
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