Monday, March 10, 2008

Camel Back Solar Power

2 billion people have no electricity. That's about one third of the world's population.

clipped from www.edn.com

One of the monumental health projects of our time has to be the effort to bring vaccines into remote, rural regions of the world. Vaccines must be kept cool, and in remote rural regions where it’s too darn hot to begin with, a reliable source of electricity is usually not a feature.

camel fridgeA Finnish company, NAPS Systems, addressed this need in the 1980’s with this mobile camel-solar-powered refrigerator. This version evolved into a more boring, but presumably more universal system, today’s CFS49IS.

 blog it

No comments: