remote houses solar system
Ghigos recently designed a prototype of solar home system for electrification of remote villages in emerging countries. Ghigos prototype was selected by Access Energy, Inc., an energy company in the process of submitting several project bids to bring electricity to rural villages in Asia via Solar Home Systems.
Ghigos Energy was directly involved in the preparation of three bids specifically aimed at providing approximately 7,500 homes in Asia with electricity via 50-, 80-, and 125-watt solar photo-voltaic systems. The project would help alleviate poverty, create employment opportunities in the energy sector, support the local economy, provide a means for communication, and improve the health and social conditions of the citizens of these villages as outlined as part of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG
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Green Computer Usage
There’s not just the actual computer usage related electricity consumption, there’s also all the millions of tons of plastic and metal used to create the billions of computers in their various forms now on this planet.
We can all do our bit in lessening our impact and the following are tips for more earth friendly computing, [...]
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During this year the US is adding
tons of CO2 to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels
The U.S. has added ... importing fossil fuel.
source: zfacts.com/