{"id":7048,"date":"2012-08-20T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:44:15","slug":"ethiopia-becomes-home-to-first-solarkiosk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/ethiopia-becomes-home-to-first-solarkiosk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Becomes Home to First SolarKiosk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just over a month ago, the first SolarKiosk opened near Lake Langano, in Ethiopia. The project was conceived by Germany-based Graft Architects as part of a bigger move to bring clean power to people in regions of the world who live off the grid and rely on burning biomass for cooking and heating. As a consequence, their health suffers due to fumes they breathe in. The UN says that almost three billion live in those conditions.
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A SolarKiosk is designed to provide enough power for villagers to charge their mobile phones and car batteries, run a computer, or power up a solar fridge. Goods sold from the Kiosk include solar lanterns, mobile phones, and cards to top-up cellular devices. The kiosk could also provide television, music, and internet depending on the location. <\/p>\n

The designers were careful to make the transportation of the kiosk as easy as possible. Therefore it has been designed as a kit of parts that is assembled once it arrives at its target destination. The packages are lightweight and do not require a container.<\/p>\n

Graft Architects say that a larger-size SolarKiosk could even produce enough energy to run a telecom tower and a group of kioks could be connected to form a local grid.<\/p>\n

Source: SolarKiosk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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