One of the things that we always prepare for when going for a long weekend or a multiday airsoft event is the availability of power to charge our mobile devices and to provide lighting in our camps and inside tents. These days, we come well prepared either bringing generators, lots of batteries, powerbanks, or even solar chargers.

All of these come with their own problems such running out of petrol for the generator, batteries and powerbanks running out of juice, and solar chargers unable to generate power at night or low light conditions. Thus, some innovators turn to other sources of renewable energy that can provide power when other options cannot. In this case, one project on Kickstarter is betting on wind for the portable power generator to charge devices.

Janulus is raising US$50,000 on Kickstarter for its Trinity Portable Wind Turbine Power Stations, but already have raised over US$105,000 with over 20 days to go before the funding pledges end. The Trinity Portable Wind Turbine Power Station is very much portable, looking like a simple white cylinder when not in use and turns into a mini-windmill when fully deployed. Available in different sizes and capacity, what are being made available at Kickstarter are the Trinity 50, 400, 1000, and 2,500.

Each Trinity Turbine Power Station has a different capacity with the Trinity 50 being 50 watt version with 7,500 power storage capacity. The higher the version number, the higher capacity  and power generation it can do and you can charge your mobile phone several times or power up your home without relying on the power grid. All are portable and the table below shows what each Trinity version can do and you can select which meets your needs:

The batteries to store power when not in use are Li-ion which are in use in today's electric-powered vehicles. The larger Trinities, the 1000 and 2,500 have their own inverters that can be made to synch with the power supply of your house or mobile home. They can even allow you to sell your excess power into the power grid if possible in your location. The beauty of the Trinity is that you can set the turbine blades into two type of settings, horizontal for low wind and vertical for high wind and it can generate power even with 4mph of wind.

With the mobile phone app, you can turn on or turn off the operation of Trinity which is safer rather than pushing a button on the wind turbine with its blades turning.

Overall, having one of the bigger Trinities can help you offset costs of powering your home. Depending on your power consumption, a Trinity 2,500 which costs US$5,600 at the Janulus website, can pay for itself in 5 to 10 years. For the Trinity 50 and 400, they will be useful when you're always in the  outdoors or at airsoft events that require you to be living in tents and will go on for several days.