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Applications of Energy in Global Development

 

 

Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax.

Members of the team working on the thermal box construction for the chick brooder. Photo: African Solar Generation (video capture)

Video | Feb 13, 2023 | African Solar Generation

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Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax.

Bringing a forced-air evaporative cooling chamber to life in Kenya

 Image shows the finished chamber (solar panel and water tank shown!) along with members of the team that worked on bringing the chamber to reality. Blog author Gaby is center rear. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Aug 19, 2022 | Gaby Alvarez Perez '22

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Bringing a forced-air evaporative cooling chamber to life in Kenya

Working with TEWDI Uganda on improvements to their solar dryer

Biomass powered heat exchanger built by the MIT D-Lab team and TEWDI Uganda staff. January 2020.

Blog | Feb 28, 2020 | Lucy Jackson '22, Arnav Patel '21, Anish Paul Antony

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Working with TEWDI Uganda on improvements to their solar dryer

MIT Independent Activities Period 2019: 40 D-Lab students in 7 countries!

D-Lab students and local community members testing a bean thresher, Botswana. January 2019.

Blog | Jan 15, 2019 | Libby Hsu, Lecturer & D-Lab Academic Program Manager

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MIT Independent Activities Period 2019: 40 D-Lab students in 7 countries!

Following up on Energy I class projects in Uganda and Kenya

MIT D-Lab trip leader and D-Lab: Energy I instructor Amit Gandhi and blog post author Danielle Gleason discuss sensors with Chebet Lesan, CEO of BrightGreen Renewable Energy, Kenya.” Photo by Jessica Huang.

Blog | Aug 28, 2018 | Danielle Gleason, D-Lab: Energy Student (MIT '20)

Following up on Energy I class projects in Uganda and Kenya

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