| Solar Program El Salvador 2005 |
Roots
& Wings International
in association with
Project
Lighthouse
Reforestation and Sustainable Energy Programs in El Salvador
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First solar installation in Tacuba - July 2005 |
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than 50 people were awaiting our arrival at the home of Rodriguo Contreras,
a brick maker and consumer advocate who lives in Tacuba, El Salvador. |
We started by explaining how solar works and the components we would be installing. |
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Everyone
wanted to get into the act. Here we are assembling the photovoltaic panel
and preparing it for installation on the roof. |
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| Sajed Kamal, our solar expert, and Rodriguo are checking out the location on the roof for the panel. |
Maria is securing the panel to the roof from inside the house. |
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| Here several people are holding up a ladder so that one of the lights can be attached to the ceiling. |
Renee
Nuñez is assembling his "turbococina," an innovative
stove that is highly efficient and produces virtually no polluting emissions. |
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The turbococina (pictured in the foreground) uses 4% of the wood needed to cook on the traditional stove, but the cost of the stove is prohibitive for most Salvadoran families, even with microcredit financing |
Here Maria is making the first tortillas on her new turbococina. |
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| Avi Davis of Project Lighthouse tries his hand at cooking tortillas—first on the traditional stove, then on a turbococina. |
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| This
is Maria Luisa, Rodriguo's daughter-in-law, with her children and friends,
who now live in a house with solar electric light and a turbococina. |
Making solar photovoltaic panels |
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