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If solar power still sounds too high tech or too unattainable to you, perhaps this will help put things in perspective: you can buy cheap, fully functional solar panel systems on EBay. And it's not just a few scrap parts or oddball solar powered gadgets. There's a veritable solar panel hardware emporium yours for perusing on EBay.
So what?, you ask. What's the big deal about solar power on EBay? Well, read this account of a TreeHugger writer who bought a simple portable solar power unit on EBay for twenty bucks—it now powers all of his gadgets.
There's really no excuse to avoid solar power anymore, when you can just pop the keywords into a search field and get a slew of relevant results. Here, I've made it even easier: here's the solar power search results on EBay.
As you can see, there's everything from DIY panel kits you can set up yourself on an idle afternoon, portable units that'll supply your iPod and other gadgets with an endless supply of juice, and full-on home solar panel sets that you can install to help power your appliances. There are literally hundreds of options.
Maybe this'll lead to a new ad campaign for a "greener" EBay: Whatever kind of solar power you're after, you'll find it on EBay! Seriously though. Check it out—find some solar power for any of your needs on EBay. And I'm not just advocating this as some sort of general pitch for the website. It's also a positive indicator of the growing ubiquity of solar power technology?now you can get it, for cheap, with a couple clicks online.
Final note: This post was in no way sponsored by EBay. Although I am grateful it helped me sell off my old Magic: the Gathering trading cards.
