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GSB Collaboration
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Ned speaking about IDE in Myanmar
- efficient lighting
- trip to the country
- 95% of country is using candles - even those that have power don't have good power
- people using 4 hours each night to read, work, do homework
- flooded lead-acid batteries charged up with diesel generators
- fluorescent lamps flicker, and burnout
Working with distributors in Cambodia as well
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No current product
this LED changes peoples lives
- didn't want to give up prototypes
- average household income is ~$1 a day
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prototypes going out
going out to many markets
- goal is $8-10 dollars
- hard to get real costs but looking at scale
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how to work together?
how to build the lights (a few hundred)
- workshop? to help solder
long term: southeast asia has different needs
- solar solution may work in other parts of the wold
medium-term
- other people in village (not just candle users)?
- some using diesel lighting (VERY low cost)
- others using 12v battery (higher-end)
IDE, sells pumps for $12 for their farm
- there is some willingness to buy these things
How long to build lights?
- maybe an hour or 45 minutes
How many on the team?
- 4-5
What kind of help do they need?
- just basic soldering
We can definitely help with the build-fest
- we could maybe create a group of people to help
- possibly mid or late spring quarter
Ignite (Cosmos) is different (although this team is working with them)
- they want to help
- this is targeted directly to customers or to distributors
- the solar panels added alot of the cost
- they use a more expensive LED
- more expensive plastic
- longer-life, high quality, more expensive
Carbon credits?
- LEDs even with charging may qualify for carbon offsets
Chronology? Priorities?
- build-fest later
- meeting with a few people who are interested or hold off
- possibly a class this coming fall
- they will either really need help in the autumn or the project will be handed off
- announcement at general meeting (spring)
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summer internship opportunity
stipend paid
- might be a good project for someone who know some circuits
- has to be able to pay their rent
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Greg with Sustainability - Biodiesel
trying to use waste oil to create biodiesel
- EHS and dining are behind it
- parts list exist
- they have the components
- need county permits
- once these get through, it's about 2 weeks to get all the parts
- they want autocad drawings of site, system, and area
- have to make sure the fire marshal is behind it
We had similar problems
- needed contours and base map from campus
- multiple layers of beaurocrasy
- Stanford arch. office, general planning, general use permit holders
- no-one exists to help students navigate this maze (either internal or external)
Grey-water
- think they could put it down the drain
- may need PA waste management people to OK it as well
This could be another discussion point at the general meeting
- EHS would be the ultimate permit holder
Ideas to help
- "Buzz Thompson" may be a good contact
- contact other people?
- through ASSU?
- how did the Green Dorm get through?
- what Stanford departments need to be on board in order to approach the county and Fire Marshal
- legal services for ASSU? Thursday afternoon.
- they may not do much, except refer us and maybe give us codes to look up
- they would be willing to give up their involvement in the project
