Digicel PNG, the offshoot of the Bermuda-based mobile ... did not have access to electricity. After acquiring the solar lamps, customers no longer had to use kerosene lamps or fires to provide ...

Solar day lamps (SDL) are simple and cost-effective. A few examples of SDLs have been described in [1], [2] and [3]. An SDL without any energy storage element suffers from frequent changes in the ...

Greenlight Planet's portable solar lamps help tailors continue sewing in a garment workshop in Rwanda, where power often goes out. In Asia and Africa, nearly 1.5 billion people live in "off the ...

Chief among them is the solar-powered light emitting diode (LED) lamp. “When we started out 15 years ago, there were no scalable solutions – large energy-hungry fluorescent bulbs required ...

In the past we've covered how to turn the inexpensive Ikea Sunnan solar lamp into a solar display case and today we have a hack from electronics manufacturer Voltaic Systems to turn the same lamp ...

On a continent where more than half the population lives off-the-grid, many African villagers can neither afford nor acquire simple solar lamps, relying instead on dangerous kerosene products to ...