Lenovo has introduced a brand new idea laptop computer at Mobile World Congress that encourages you to work outdoors by lowering your dependence on energy cables. The Yoga Solar PC is an early proof of idea system that includes a photo voltaic panel built-in into the laptop computer’s lid. It can harness mild from any supply to spice up its battery, however as with most solar-powered units, you’ll get probably the most energy whereas working outdoors on a transparent, sunny day.
The Yoga Solar PC’s light-absorbing panel is made up of 84 photo voltaic cells that includes a Back Contact cell design. All of the panel’s mounting brackets and electrical contacts that gather and switch the vitality that’s generated are positioned behind the photo voltaic cells. The entrance of the panel is ready to seize extra mild, permitting Lenovo to realize a conversion charge – how a lot of the captured daylight is transformed to usable electrical energy – of greater than 24 p.c.
That’s extra environment friendly than many of the silicone-based photo voltaic panels utilized in shopper electronics right now, however a bit behind panels that includes an added layer of perovskite movie on high that may enhance mild absorption and efficiencies to as much as 43 p.c. Even at 24 p.c effectivity, Lenovo says the Yoga Solar PC’s panel “can take up and convert sufficient photo voltaic vitality from direct daylight in 20 minutes to energy as much as one hour of video playback.” The firm says it’s nonetheless evaluating how a lot energy is produced in circumstances with decrease mild.
Powered by an Intel Lunar Lake paired with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, the Yoga Solar PC measures in at 15 millimeters thick and weighs round 2.29 kilos with its 14-inch OLED show. To assist guarantee customers are capable of finest reap the benefits of the sunshine out there to them – whether or not indoors or outdoors – the laptop computer may also function Lenovo’s Dynamic Solar Tracking system software program displaying how a lot present and voltage the photo voltaic panel is producing.
For present Yoga laptop computer customers wanting to scale back their battery nervousness whereas touching grass, Lenovo additionally revealed an exterior solar energy package idea. It’s a standalone resolution that opens like a e-book to disclose a pair of side-by-side photo voltaic panels that may be connected to a backpack or stand by itself with a fold-out kickstand. It can join and ship energy to a tool with a USB-C cable, or the solar’s rays can be utilized to cost an included energy financial institution that may energy different units later. But Lenovo hasn’t introduced plans to place it into manufacturing but.
Lenovo created the idea to “bridge the hole between performance and environmental consciousness,” giving customers easy accessibility to another vitality supply. You’d want the climate to cooperate for some time to totally cost the Yoga Solar PC utilizing its comparatively small photo voltaic panel, but it surely might be a welcome fallback for when an influence outlet is nowhere in attain.
