{"id":575467,"date":"2010-05-22T03:09:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T07:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/mit-students-develop-20-solar-lamp-for-remote-parts-of-india\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T03:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T07:09:30","slug":"mit-students-develop-20-solar-lamp-for-remote-parts-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575467","title":{"rendered":"MIT students develop $20 solar lamp for remote parts of India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/22\/kerosene-lamp_mqxRw_69.jpg\" alt=\"kerosene lamp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Sustainable lamp powered by solar energy. <\/p>\n<p>A team of seven students from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.risd.edu\/\">Rhode Island School of Design<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2010\/making-progress-in-product-design.html\">lamp<\/a> 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\u2019s largest non-governmental organizations, the Energy and Resource Institute, which will consider using Enlight to light some 40,000 villages.<\/p>\n<p>Image Courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/vD9qjNk06OhBdfpxPCmvRQ\">Picasa<\/a> [Under a Creative Commons License]<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/template.PAGE\/permalink\/?javax.portlet.tpst=c3eb0ec6c81ef7157972709ddb808a0c_ws_MX&#038;javax.portlet.prp_c3eb0ec6c81ef7157972709ddb808a0c_newsLang=en&#038;javax.portlet.prp_c3eb0ec6c81ef7157972709ddb808a0c_viewID=news_view&#038;javax.portlet.prp_c3eb0ec6c81ef7157972709ddb808a0c_newsId=20100519006830&#038;beanID=1933350696&#038;viewID=news_view&#038;javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&#038;javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken\">BusinessWire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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-575467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575467","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=575467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}