Peppermint Energy https://refractor.io/tag/peppermint-energy/ Peppermint Energy en-AU Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:01:20 GMT The Forty2 portable solar power unit pins production hopes on crowd-funding https://refractor.io/environment/the-forty2-portable-solar-power-unit-pins-production-hopes-on-crowd-funding/ South Dakota's Peppermint Energy has launched a Kickstarter funding campaign to help take its Forty2 personal, portable solar energy device from working prototype to its first limited production run and beyond

It took Deep Thought (the supercomputer from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) seven and a half million years to calculate that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything was 42. South Dakota's Peppermint Energy is hoping that it won't take quite that long to bring its personal, portable solar energy device named The Forty2 into production. The company has turned to crowd-funding portal Kickstarter to help it take the all-in-one power unit from working prototype to its first limited production run and beyond.

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]]> Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:01:20 GMT https://refractor.io/environment/the-forty2-portable-solar-power-unit-pins-production-hopes-on-crowd-funding/ Paul Ridden