Solar boxes could bring clean energy to the world’s poorest regions

Imagine being able to power your house with solar “energy cubes” that you can stack up like LEGO pieces to create a network of energy. It sounds like something out of sci-fi movie, yet this remarkable idea invented by a Swiss company may one day actually provide us with inexpensive, clean energy across all grids.From a distance, Switzerland-based Power-Blox’s PBX-200 looks like a cooler box you’d commonly see on a beach; however, that couldn’t be further away from truth. These “solar boxes” have batteries powered by portable solar panels, and just one of them can supply the majority of a home’s energy demands.This is a system that adapts to your needs since the solar boxes can expand, divide, and re-group. To create energy for a community, the batteries in the blocks can merge to form an energy swarm, as the boxes can easily be plugged into another box.The engineering behind the…

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