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Getting potential to disaster-affected areas is always a conditioned task, but Andrew Leinonen’s undergrad industrial design thesis (and recent first place entry in the 2008 ACIDO Rocket Show) might be able to solve the problem in an efficient and intelligent way. Dubbed Solarial, the notion is to use small unmanned airships made out of materials embedded with CIGS solar cells to autonomously deliver clean potential to

catastrophe sites by deploying anchored “power boxes” that have 12 total 120V outlets and 2 240V sockets. Obviously that is just a concept, but it’s a intelligent one — let’s hope someone with the cash to produce it happens finds out about it.

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Original post by Nilay Patel