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Project Team working in El Salvador

A photo of a group of us who worked on this project in El Salvador.

Categories: Energy

Binding Charcoal Powder

We are pouring a binder into the charcoal powder this will allow us to to form the charcoal briquettes.

Categories: Energy

Converting Sugarcane Bagasse to charcoal

Amy Banzaert and colleague load a drum with sugarcane bagasse in order to carbonize it.

Categories: Energy

Banzaert measuring temperature and gasses

Legatum Fellow, Amy Banzaert, measuring the temperature and combustion gasses emanating from an early stage of the carbonization process.

Categories: Energy

Smaller, smarter. For remote regions, electricity does have to mean extending the grid. There may be a simpler way

This article delves into the innovative ways in which light and power are being supplied to previously un-serviced areas.  These approaches represent a shift away from traditional centralized, resource-demanding, “extend the grid” solutions and toward environmentally-friendly, resource-recycling, “off-grid” alternatives.

Categories: Bangladesh, Energy, Foreign Aid

Seabed microbe study leads to low-cost power, light for the poor

New fuel cell technology may prove to be an ideal low-cost power source.

Categories: Bangladesh, Cambridge, Energy, Water

Creating Empowerment

The best way to help a people is to help them help themselves.  To this end, Iqbal Quadir is developing a new, portable technology that will enable rural Bangladeshi to generate electricity from cow dung.

Categories: Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, Energy, Mobile Technologies

Why not capitalism for developing countries?

In this interview with GrameenPhone founder Iqbal Quadir, Quadir explains why he believes that capitalism can empower, rather than exploit, the low-income populations of the developing world.

Categories: Economics , Energy

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