{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/solar-kiosk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/solar-kiosk-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"solar-kiosk\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/solar-kiosk-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/solar-kiosk.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarkiosk.eu\" target=\"_blank\">SolarKiosk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @energyrefuge<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1572,232,1571],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","tag-ethiopia","tag-solar","tag-solarkiosk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}