On 19/02/11 23:39, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:54:03PM +0000, AG wrote:
Dear all
My wife and I are looking to go volunteering for at least the next
six months and will be 95% off-grid. We want to remain connected
to the Net and continue to have access to a computer, and Debian
will be our system of choice.
If you are going to be somewhat nearby civilization, this series of
articles might be interesting to you:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/03/not_spot_diary/
Many thanks for your comments Christian and Rob.
Finding PV cells that effectively and reliably charge laptops does seem
to be quite a task here in the UK. I have found a couple of potentially
promising leads which I will investigate further. However, if you come
across anything along these lines, please post.
The other issue is to track down a reliable laptop (doesn't need to be
too rugged), that has a decent battery life (& doesn't degrade rapidly
with each subsequent charge) and allows for basic power-saving/ energy
efficient options. Has anyone any recommendations for that ... or is
that also a bit of a rarity? The two laptops I've had in my life so far
started off well enough but degraded in battery life quite quickly, and
one of those was a Dell, so I was quite disappointed with that.
Anyway, thanks for your thoughts so far. If anything else comes to
mind, please let me know.
Cheers
AG
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