{"id":463182,"date":"2010-03-23T05:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/french-students-develop-solar-powered-diy-washing-machine\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T05:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:47:20","slug":"french-students-develop-solar-powered-diy-washing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463182","title":{"rendered":"French students develop solar-powered DIY washing machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/23\/open-source-solar-powered-washing-machine_4_ykM6l_69.jpg\" alt=\"open source solar powered washing machine_4\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Open source DIY clothes washer powered by solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>A team of 2nd-year art students from the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Art d\u2019Aix-en-Provence in France have developed a DIY <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oswash.org\/\">washing machine<\/a> that has been made using materials available in the Sahara, which includes bicycle tires, bamboo and a solar panel that is directly connected to a recycled electric motor. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/23\/open-source-solar-powered-washing-machine_1_QB98H_69.jpg\" alt=\"open source solar powered washing machine_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The project has been developed to help more than 2 billion people in the world who don\u2019t have access to some of the basic amenities including clean water and electricity. The machine has been entirely made from easily available materials and since it is powered by renewable energy, the machine can be used in any part of the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/23\/open-source-solar-powered-washing-machine_2_SlR4k_69.jpg\" alt=\"open source solar powered washing machine_2\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/23\/open-source-solar-powered-washing-machine_3_dURho_69.jpg\" alt=\"open source solar powered washing machine_3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/openmaterials.org\/2010\/03\/17\/the-open-source-washing-machine-project\/\">Open Materials<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Open source DIY clothes washer powered by solar energy. A team of 2nd-year art students from the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Art d\u2019Aix-en-Provence in France have developed a DIY washing machine that has been made using materials available in the Sahara, which includes bicycle tires, bamboo and a solar panel that is directly connected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463182","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}