What’s the cost of using solar energy panels and battery chargers? The advantages of solar energy panels and battery chargers are that you can charge your batteries, cell phone, IPod, and PC when grid electricity is not available. This would be especially helpful in areas impacted by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, snow, typhoons, icy weather as well as when camping and at construction sites. It appears that at least biannually in a snow storm,  somebody has to use their cell telephone from a mountaintop to call for assistance.

Keeping the battery on the telephone charged is important in this scenario. Even if you never go outside, have you ever lost power for a long period of time? New Hampshire just went thru an ice storm that came on December 12th, 2008, and some folks in our state on December 24th, 2008 still had no power.  Hurricanes have been known to take out power from the grid for months.  After all these storms the sun still shines on solar power cells and the clean up required after the storms always requires power to do the task.   Since the panels generate enough power for computer PCs to be kept charged, insurance claims and other disaster recovery paperwork could be filed faster.

A transportable roll up solar energy panel is incredibly light and easy to hold.

It should be part of all emergency kits.  What’s the price of having the ability to get aid when you want it?  The sky’s the limit.