If you love going in the great outdoors, often there may be places where you just wish you could have a shower. All outdoor places don’t have shower facilities and while you might want to jump into the nearest river or lake to clean up, you will have to endure the water temperature. This eco-friendly solar shower is portable and easy to fold or roll up when empty and you can carry it in your backpack as well.

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There are many enclosed spaces which can do with an exhaust or a ventilating system which keeps the air fresh. Solar Sphere manufactures many solar powered products and the SunVent is a ventilating system which is designed for use in RVs, boats, mobile homes, vans, sheds, dog houses and more.

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Considering almost all areas in the world use trash bins from where the garbage is collected, a solar trash compactor makes sense. Tampa city is planning to experiment with these on a trial basis.

The trash compactors are powered by a solar panel on top which recharges a 12 volt battery. Once the bin reaches its maximum capacity, an electric beam releases a ram which compacts the trash. This way, the bin can hold as much as 180 gallons of compacted trash.

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Birds can be nice, otherwise why would people keep them as pets or keep birdbaths in their gardens? However, birds can also be pests specially when they eat seeds and plants and poop all over the place. Many birds also spread diseases.

So if you have a garden, a patio, a swimming area, decks, boats, gazebos, fish ponds, a boat or car cover, this bird repeller can help keep the birds at bay. It is environmentally friendly, being solar powered – no batteries needed. It can be placed at any angle. The solar panel works even in low light conditions.

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If you are fortunate enough to have a swimming pool in your house, you will know that it involves tending to and cleaning. While filtration is usually taken care of and the water is kept relatively clean with the addition of chorine, you must be aware that chlorine is a chemical. It can dry the skin and even change the color of your hair (if it has been recently colored).

The Solar Powered Pool Purifier is easy to use as you just put it in the pool. Because it uses solar power, it starts working immediately the sun comes out. It works by releasing mineral ions into the water which make it safe and this way the use of chlorine is reduced by 80 per cent as are its harmful side effects.

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Increasingly, older people tend to need hearing aids because their hearing capabilities go down. A hearing aid usually requires charging via batteries and/or electricity, but now Howard Weinstein has designed a hearing aid which can work on solar power.

You may well feel that hearing aids do not consume much power and since they are medical aids, it is okay to use that power. However, there are poor people in many countries who may not have access to electricity and changing batteries may be too expensive, even if they are available.

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It is all well and good that battery chargers are not great power consumers, but every little bit of power saved counts. As such the Kodak KS100-C Solar Charger can charge two AA batteries using solar power. And if you are traveling or even putting it on the dashboard of your car, you can use solar power to recharge the batteries.

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If you are a Macbook user, you will be happy to know that you can use your Macbooks anywhere in the world, using solar power. QuickerTek has introduced its aptly named Apple Juicz solar charger which works with all MacBooks. This eco-friendly charger means that you are not dependent on electricity anywhere to use your MacBook.

Available in two models, the Apple Juicz charger is available in a 27 watt model which charges the laptop in 8-12 hours and the more powerful 55 watt model which takes only 6 hours to charge.

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If you have a portable MP3/video player you will know how dependent you are on batteries to run the device. But the eMotion EM-SOL2GIG Solar Powered MP3/Video Portable Media Player works on solar power so it is more eco-friendly. You also reduce the batteries which are otherwise disposing and which find their way into landfills.

This solar powered player not only allows you to listen to play games, listen to music or watch video, it also lets you watch and transfer music, video, images and even games to and from the player. It is also versatile in that the charger it comes with can power phones, laptops, cameras and other portable devices.

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Air is something we usually cannot see, unless it becomes smog, and then it is extremely polluted. However, when the air is clean, your lungs can definitely feel it. If you use an air purifier which is solar powered, you will be breathing clean and fresh air and being eco-friendly at the same time.

This portable solar air purifier can be used in your car or in the kitchen to remove odors – it contains an active carbon filter to do so. And it uses high efficiency photo catalysis to purify the air. As it does not have a motor, it does not make any noise.

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