I've been an advisor to Amrutdhara since they started work on their alternative to plastic bottles as a solution to clean water . If you've spent any time in India you'll know how much of a problem both ...
Monday, 02 February 2015
... wind turbines, while designing a low cost turbine optimised for places with low wind.
Listing on Idea index Minvayu.org
UV Aquastar - affordable drinking water
Have a low-cost drinking water device ...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
UV Aquastar has designed simple, affordable devices that treat water with ultra-violet light, killing pathogens and enabling people to take control of supplying their own safe drinking water . ...
Tuesday, 03 January 2012
... road every ten meters or so, and of course that took out power, and phone lines, no electricity means no water since the pumps won't run, and of course no internet. Its day 4 now, mobile phones are back ...
Monday, 02 January 2012
UV Aquastar has designed simple, affordable devices that treat water with ultra-violet light, killing pathogens and enabling people to take control of supplying their own safe drinking water . A mobile ...
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Over 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation, more than twice the number lacking power or water .
While in the UK in June I was introduced to David Crosweller of Wherever The Need (WTN) who filled ...
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Over 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation, more than twice the number lacking power or water . Wherever The Need is looking for commercially viable models for slum sanitation. Natural Innovation ...
Friday, 16 September 2011
... scientists, builders, and engineers to create never before seen spectacles of engineering. Inventions ranged from an omni-directionally driving stilt lifting traffic busting truck to a 30-foot tall water slide ...
Monday, 23 May 2011
... (NGO's and companies) working to bring technology to rural poor. I talked with seven groups in different states and with different approaches. Most expressed an interest in Sunvention's SunPulse Water ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011
... highest humanitarian impact.
Sunvention plans to complete development of some key products and bring them to market in 2011. These products include: SunPulse Water , a solar thermal pump; SunPulse Electric ...
Thursday, 24 March 2011
... from saved expenditure for example on water or fuel, or by increased productivity.
Partners – manufacturing, distribution, sales, investment, financing – may themselves be non-profits or commercial, ...
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
... 19-20 Chennai 21-22 Auroville 23-29 (though those dates are tentative, and especially the later ones are likely to shift back a day or so).
In particular I'm discussing the SunPulse Water the amazing ...
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
... or donors that might be interested either in the core venture, or in specific projects. As just one example - they have developed and tested the SunPulse Water , a solar thermal water pump. It will ...
Friday, 24 December 2010
... highest potential to impact our planet, and in particularly the billions without adequate supplies of food, clean water & energy were not going to be funded by classical philanthropy because it was ...
Friday, 24 December 2010
... on this hot-oil and Scheffler mirrors
Stand alone solar thermal water pumping
A fully working version of this system has been installed at the Tamara eco-village in Portugal, incorporating all these ...
Friday, 22 October 2010
Sunvention have developed an integrated solar thermal water pump, possibly the first cost-effective solution to village-scale pumping in sunbelt countries.
Problem
Much of the world's rural poor ...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
... & daylighting etc. We are particularly excited by the potential of the SunPulse Water , a solar pump that is 3x as efficient as Photovoltaic pumps.
Natural Innovation helped Sunvention to document ...
Sunday, 27 June 2010
... allows for organic production, at low cost, and high efficiencies – in terms of energy, water and land usage. However it is designed for larger scale – at a minimum of 3,000m2.
UES are committed to solving ...
Sunday, 21 February 2010
... help you.
We are interested in ideas that provide renewable energy, reduce emissions, clean water , reduce waste and pollution, increase food production sustainably. We are especially looking for ideas ...
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
For nearly two years I've been looking into the question of how to further sustainable and scalable technologies that can solve the challenges of the billion+ people who lack access to clean water , power, ...
Wednesday, 20 July 2011