Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Low-cost lamps brighten the future of rural India
KHADAKWADI, INDIA - Until just three months ago, life in this humble village without electricity would come to a grinding halt after sunset. Inside his mud-and-clay home, Ganpat Jadhav's three children used to study in the dim, smoky glow of a kerosene lamp. And when their monthly fuel quota of four liters dried up in just a fortnight, they had to strain their eyes using the light from a cooking fire.
That all changed with the installation of low-cost, energy-efficient lamps that are powered entirely by the sun.
"Children can now study at night, elders can manage their chores better," says Mr. Jadhav. "Life doesn't halt anymore when darkness falls."
Read more.. (The Christian Science Monitor, Jan 03, 2006)
That all changed with the installation of low-cost, energy-efficient lamps that are powered entirely by the sun.
"Children can now study at night, elders can manage their chores better," says Mr. Jadhav. "Life doesn't halt anymore when darkness falls."
Read more.. (The Christian Science Monitor, Jan 03, 2006)
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The combined cost of solar panel, battery storage and low cost bulbs make it an economically unviable project. This may work well for someone trying to get a working prototype, but would not work for a community at large.
There is a dire need to conserve energy at places where its being wasted, and redirect it where it is needed.
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There is a dire need to conserve energy at places where its being wasted, and redirect it where it is needed.
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