News tagged with kerosene lamps

A bright future with solar lanterns for India's poor

Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security, according to Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Solar Cells with LEDs Provide Inexpensive Lighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 1.5 billion people in developing countries who do not have electricity, many rely on kerosene lamps for light after the sun goes down. But now, researchers from Denmark have designed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 2 weblog

EGG-energy brings power to Africa with battery subscription service

(PhysOrg.com) -- By applying the NetFlix model of movie swapping to batteries, a team of researchers and students from MIT and Harvard is hoping to provide electricity to thousands of homes in Tanzania. Their ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Personal solar panel could make electricity more accessible in the developing world (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a child in Mali, Abdrahamane Traore often did his homework by the sooty, dim light of a kerosene lamp.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solar lantern lights up rural India's dark nights

For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Kenyan's mission: solar lamps to empower the poor

Evans Wadongo is not yet 25 but has already changed the lives of tens of thousands of his fellow Kenyans living in poor rural communities by supplying them with solar lamps.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5

One million Bangladesh homes on solar power

The number of households in electricity-starved Bangladesh using solar panels has crossed the one million mark -- the fastest expansion of solar use in the world, officials said Wednesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar

(AP) -- Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5