Our friends at Dissigno are replacing kerosene lighting with LED lights with a grant from the World Bank (part of Lighting Africa initiative). Six hours of pedaling stores enough energy to light 6 homes for 30 days. San Francisco-based Dissigno is currently on site in Tanzania.
About 2 billion people have no electric lighting a home. Fuel (typically kerosene) is expensive, inefficient, unhealthy, and unsafe. The costs of fuel dependency and subsidies are very high. Lack of lighting is directly linked with the cycle of illiteracy and poverty. You Tube video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2nASqdJw3rg
Dissigno was recently written up in Discover mag and on the Wired Science blog. Pretty cool stuff.
Photos: John Dickey
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