Solar Now, Water Later

December 25, 2012 Editor 0

An estimated 780 million people around the world lack access to clean drinking water and 1.3 billion people are still without access to electricity. Twenty-year-old Eden Full, who has been tinkering with solar technology for more than half of her young life, saw these dual challenges and designed a dual-purpose system that uses mechanical water flow to control the rotation of a solar panel to meet them.

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Categories: Next Billion

Tags: Later, Solar, source, Water