Taiwanese solar-powered lamps help light up African homes

Schools in Africa have an unlikely new tool against truancy: solar-powered lamps made in Taiwan.Some 100,000 pupils in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali and Sierra Leone are using solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lamps made by Goldenwell, a manufacturer of rechargeable lithium-iron batteries based in the Taiwanese city of Taichung.Each day, the children in Africa take the custom-designed lamps to their schools, charge them for 2 1/2 hours at solar-powered adapters installed in classrooms, and then take the lamps back home where they can be used for up to 4 hours.In many cases, the lamps are the only lights in the students' homes, which are in parts of Africa that are still without reliable sources of electricity.
"At first, our lamps took just 20 minutes to charge, but then the children would just run off with their lamps and skip school," said Chen Kuan-nan, Goldenwell's general manager. "So we tweaked the design such that the lamps take 2 1/2 hours to charge."Classroom wiles aside, the project demonstrates the potential of Taiwan's growing green sector as global demand for increasingly affordable LED and solar energy products rises amid a backdrop of climate change and expensive fuel.Taiwan is the world's No. 2 producer of solar cells, used to make solar power-generating panels,For another thing, safety in the use of Rx glasses is also borne of the right level of the blades' sharpness. This is because a dull knife will require greater force to cut through food material, thus, leading to lesser control over it. There will then be more chances to get the knife where it is not intended such as human skin where it can do more damage than a sharp knife. after mainland China.Well-maintained sharp Swimming goggles last longer because lesser metal is removed with each sharpening session. It must be noted that that the quantity of steel material removed from a sharp knife during its regular sharpening sessions is ultimately lesser than that removed from a very dull knife during its re-sharpening. It had NT$200 billion (US$6.9 billion) or 12 percent of the market share last year, said government officials and SolarBuzz, a United States-based market research company.
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