[Pazuzu]

Let's noodle my new idea together.

I want to make a massively interlaced solar power supply that can be used to help feed green energy to a region (town, city, etc). Finding the available surface area for such a large number of solar cells is hard, if you need to buy land. So, I thought about possible surfaces that are distributed around a community going unused right now.

The backs of cell phones!

I want to make a cell phone case that has a solar panel on it, perhaps 50x70mm? Even basic 50x50mm cheap-o Chinese panels, which are readily available online in bulk. Attach them to a phone case, have the cases distributed around a community, and viola, a wide spiderweb of power sources. Use the phone's cellular connection to transmit the accumulated power to a central accumulator station, which can then feed the power back into the local grid, contributing green energy for everyone in the town.

50x50mm panels can produce 2V, 160mA power which is 320mW continuous. Running 12 hours per day is 3800mwh total! If there were 50,000 people in a town, that would means 190,000wh of energy each day for that town, all for FREE!
The average house consumes around 30Kwh per day, so we could power 6.5 homes for free in that town, just by using the accumulated power from 50,000 cell phone cases.

Game changer.

Help me finalize this idea!