{"id":226852,"date":"2010-01-22T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1275\/solar-power-playing-major-role-in-haiti-relief.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:27:00","slug":"solar-power-playing-major-role-in-haiti-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226852","title":{"rendered":"Solar power playing major role in Haiti relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"haiti-solar\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/haiti-solar.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The people of <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/component\/content\/article\/3041\">Haiti<\/a> are facing a long and difficult road to recovery.\u00a0 Their power infrastructure has been demolished and fuel for generators and cooking is scarce, but they do have one thing on their side:\u00a0 abundant sunshine.\u00a0 Many solar power companies and non-profits are focusing on that resource and bringing solar-powered equipment capable of providing essential needs like drinkable water, cooking surfaces and mobile phones to the Haitian people.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the organizations providing solar-powered relief include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunoven.com\/\">Sun Ovens International<\/a> &#8212; Delivering hundreds of solar-powered ovens capable of making 1,200 meals in eight hours to homeless camps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwatersolar.com\/\">Worldwater &#038; Solar Technologies<\/a> &#8212; Donated a 22 kW array that is running a boarding school for 350 kids and a solar-powered mobile water purification system that is pumping out 30,000 gallons of clean water daily at a Red Cross aid station.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digicelgroup.com\/\">Digicel<\/a> &#8212; Donating 1,000 solar mobile phones to keep lines of communication open during the crisis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/solincstore.com\/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&#038;Itemid=37\">Sol Inc<\/a>. &#8212; Contributing 100 solar-powered streetlights that can be installed in less than an hour, stay lit all night and stand up to hurricane-force winds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We often think about renewable energy as the thing that will save us in the long term, but it&#8217;s important to see how powerful of a savior it can be in the short term as well.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/01\/19\/2178696.aspx\">MSNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/-p68dfiwa5g\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Haiti are facing a long and difficult road to recovery.\u00a0 Their power infrastructure has been demolished and fuel for generators and cooking is scarce, but they do have one thing on their side:\u00a0 abundant sunshine.\u00a0 Many solar power companies and non-profits are focusing on that resource and bringing solar-powered equipment capable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}