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Energy for developing world
- -Microloans
- -To eliminate poverty had to address most basic of human needs: energy
- -Going through energy crisis
- – 70% not getting energy and the 30% getting bad energy
- -Cannot go forward in information age without electricity
- -Poverty is not a natural state of being
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Sun Panels: Developing world
- =People at first didn’t want to get used to using solar panels but welcomed them once they got used to them
- -Women need to be part of the new energy vision
- -Women technicians used so women are more comfortable
- -Goal was to sell 100 units/month now they sell 300 units/month and growing
- -Individual investment/maintenance required making it difficult
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Women are essential to managing households and taking steps out of poverty
- -More essential to economic growth?
- -Women stay till death of children when often men leave to find higher income
- -They bring social balance
- -Many women get degrees but get office jobs
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Biogas
- -Creating resources and employment for local people
- -Good for environment
- -Saving people money and time
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Energy allows break from
- extreme poverty and environmental degradation
- -If you can be a little more creative and look from the ground up (communities, what they need, how can it happen, what is special about their culture/religion, how do they do things)
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Two types of energy
- 1. Survival Energy
- -what allows us to survive
- -What developing nations care about the most
- -Rural areas are concerned whether or not they can stay warm, cook food etc.
- 2. Make it go energy
- – what is important to industrialized energy (i.e. oil)
- -Take survival energy for granted
- -All the energy produced is about making stuff go
- -We think this is what everyone needs
- -Developed nation extraction from developing nations
- -What happens when developed nations take everything?
- -What happens to the site?We care about (i.e. oil spills) events that happen on our territory and oceans but not so much about when it happens in other nations
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Biomas
- -Lots of different type of biomass can be used
- -Dry biomass – Finland: use bark, branches, peat, etc. (stuff from their forest) for energy
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Wave power (video)
- -Deeper water gets the most energy
- -Convert energy of wave into electricity
- -Devices have to be able to work reliably over a long period of time in harsh environments
- -We won’t know how these devises will affect the environment yet
- -Being tested in the UK/Europe
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Geothermal
- -California is currently the holder of the largest geothermal energy power plant
- -Only very recently that people are looking into an realizing there’s many places around the world that have geothermal energy
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Traditional solar energy
- -Lots of potential in any place that is open and flat
- -Produce a huge amount of heat that is generated amount the area where it is placed
- -Environmentally very bad
- -Produces a lot of energy but bad for land around it
- -More than wind energy but not as environmentally friendly
- -Europe trying to put solar panels in the Sahara Desert for energy for themselves
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Wind Energy
- -Europe needs to find alternative energy methods due to already using up its resources
- -Wind farms in developing nations are now a huge deal
- -Fastest, quickest, easiest way to get energy
- -Being pushed by developed nations to developing nations so they can get energy and also so they have their backs when they need resources
- -Very good for developing nations
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Simple Energy solutions
- -Developing countries eventually use make it go energy if they want to develop
- -Providing light for little or no cost
- -Mwezi light – solar powered light that is very modular and can be assembled without any previous experience
- -Specifically designed for African people (all materials from Africa)
- -Portal light made domestically and sold domestically
- -Socket – soccer ball that captures kinetic energy during normal play
- -30 minutes of play powers LED light for 3 hours
- -Gravity light – light produced by something (rocks) pulling down a rope
- -Trying to solve energy problem with very basic technologies
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