Cold storage units for off-grid rural areas run on solar power
Glasgow — Growing up under the care of his grandmother in rural eastern Kenya, Dysmus Kisilu saw how hard farmers worked and, often, how little they earned.
His Solar Freeze technology lets farmers pay a small daily fee to put their crops into cold storage until prices rise, boosting their incomes and cutting food waste, an important contributor to global warming. “I was fascinated,” he said. “I thought these things were very practical back home — but there was just no link between the research and what was happening on the ground.”
A woman at a Kenyan health clinic ordered one of the $400 units, which can be paid off in instalments using the country’s M-Pesa mobile-phone-based payment system, then introduced Kisilu to five more buyers.
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