Ericsson is planning to power 118,000 mobile phone towers using renewable energy in the Developing world. The project is expecting to save 600 million gallons of diesel. Ericsson is using "vertical wind turbines [which] can have some noise-cutting, cost-cutting and reliability advantages over traditional spinning windmills and may be perfect for in-city wind electricity generation, as well as personal backyard installations." [TreeHugger] [Gizmodo] [TreeHugger]
Motorola Solar and Wind Powered Cell Phone Networks in Africa--------------------------------------------------------
Motorola has installed solar and wind powered in Dordabis village in the Khomas region of Namibia. The green solar and wind toers will operate the MTC Namibia's GSM network. [TreeHugger]
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These solar cell towers are "... in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. The 12 panels are enough to take the tower off grid, and even occasionally add power back onto the electric grid." [TreeHugger] [Green Yahoo!]
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