Eco Factor: Sustainable lamp powered by solar energy.
A team of seven students from MIT and Rhode Island School of Design have created a low-cost lamp that could be used by millions of people in remote parts of India. Dubbed Enlight, the lamp costs just $20 and runs on renewable solar energy. The lamp can withstand drops on the floor and can easily be taken apart and fixed if something goes wrong.
The lamp aims to provide a clean energy solution to millions of people who rely on kerosene lamps, which are unhealthy, unsafe and inadequate. The team will present a prototype to one of India’s largest non-governmental organizations, the Energy and Resource Institute, which will consider using the Enlight to light some 40,000 villages.
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Via: BusinessWire
