Got wind? Get a wind powered mobile phone charger!

We’ve not had our daily update from Our Man at Glastonbury, which means that he’s either:

• been washed away
• got so drunk he’s lost his phone
• he’s dropped his phone down one of the infamous Glastonbury toilets and hasn’t been able to retrieve it
• the wandering Goths have carried him off and held him hostage
• the sun’s gone in and he can’t charge his phone up anymore

Which brings us neatly to gotwind.org

gotwind is a DIY website for renewable energy enthusiasts. For this year’s Glastonbury, Orange have commissioned them to build a working prototype of their portable tent mounted wind charger. Very cool. via New Consumer

How Ethical! thought that we might try and spot Our Man using one of the festival webcams, but it seems that the BBC’s camera is out of order at the minute. Found an alternative here, but it’s only showing an image from the 19th June*. Maybe we’ll have to e-mail the Glasto-PhotoBlog 2007 to see if they can spot him…

*Which I’ve subsequently discovered is using the BBC’s feed, which explains why it’s not working either.