Energía

Aviation makes a massive global, socio-economic contribution (Oxford Economics 2011). Growth is generally fastest in developing countries, precisely because it’s so intimately linked to economic development. At the same time, it's clear aviation is carbon-intensive and in need of low carbon solutions. It’s a huge challenge, and huge opportunity to make a big difference. Any breakthroughs could not only change aviation, but also the wider transport industry, with its big carbon footprint (2% global carbon contribution for aviation, and growing; 4% for shipping; 12% for other transport: WRI, 2005). Our biggest opportunity to make a significant difference is by supporting next-generation, low carbon fuels, while avoiding the problems of earlier generation ‘biofuels’, by using novel feedstocks like waste gases, liquids and solids. (How amazing to make a fuel from ‘recycled’ carbon that would otherwise end up in our atmosphere, rather than taking new carbon out of the ground?) We insist on suppliers using the RSB gold-standard, international, independent, multi-stakeholder standard for sustainable fuels, which includes robust LCA methodology. We encourage the technological know-how. But much supplier work is early-stage, and there’s a big funding gap that airlines alone cannot address. We at Virgin are accelerating the fuels’ route to commercialisation by convening key leading stakeholders (inc. suppliers, NGOs, scientists, policy-makers, industry, and – crucially – financers) to create a market and solutions. Much of the detail is confidential, but this is the essence of it.

Our product is a moving device that can go where the customer is. This convenience can increase cell phone usage and access for millions as they go about their everyday activities. For example, let’s say John, a small business owner, is in the city conducting business. He has been on the phone for a long period of time researching and managing transactions for his business. His phone is nearly dead, but he still has critical business to handle. John sees an MSCC charge system next to his favorite restaurant so John plugs into the charge device. He gets a ticket that he will need to get his phone back and while he is having his lunch, his phone is charging. John does not need to worry about his phone because the franchisee is watching over it. 20 minutes later John is done with his lunch, he goes to get his phone that is almost fully charged. He pays 20 cents for the service, and goes to his next meeting. He did not waste anytime having to go back to his house to charge or look for an outlet .... he can continue his day with no interruption. The franchisee, Charles, knows that this restaurant is the most popular in Kigali. He loads the MSCC device he is renting on his bicycle, and picks a visible spot near the restaurant early in the day. After the lunch hour rush Charles moves to his afternoon location, a corner bus stop, to catch the rush hour traffic home.

Rickshaw Bank project is the flagship activity of the CRD. The project was started in November 20, 2004 with the strategy of mobilizing poor rural migrants, urban poor and facilitating them with asset-based micro-finance package to have their dignified livelihood. The project is being recognized as an innovative one and well-acclaimed both at national and international level. The project provides an asset-based micro-leasing package of tricycle, insurance, license, uniform with the terms of reference of handing over the ownership to the tricycles after realizing the cost of the package at Equal Daily Installment within a year or half. Besides, Rickshaw Bank provides other services to the pullers – health checkup, fuel package (LP Gas with Stove), educational exchange programme for the children of the rickshaw pullers etc.
Technical collaboration is made with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati and MIT, USA for designing and sophisticating of different tricycles and carts like rickshaw, momo cart, Vegetable/Fruit Cart, Fish Cart etc.
The newly designed rickshaw is having a bigger advertisement space on the back side and the is initially purchased by the Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Lever Limited and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. under their corporate social responsibility programme. Later on, different banks like ICICI Bank, Punjab National Bank also financed through their on-lending mode. The Govt. of Assam also supported, providing incentives by subsidize the cost under the Employment Generation Mission.

Example 1. XYZ Elementary School in Kelowna is participating in International Walk to School Week. The school invests it's resources in promoting the program, parents get involved, and hopefully more students walk to school. What is the measurement of success and how does the school justify the investment? Currently through anecdotal evidence only. With IST, the schools administrator registers, configures the calculator with the school location, crafts a program introduction message and establishes specific survey questions. Codes or a unique URL is for each classroom are provided to the students and parents. Prior to iWalk Week students and their parents use the calculator to record their current travel behaviour and set a goal for iWalk Week. Each student's result is uploaded. After iWalk Week is completed the exercise(which takes about 2 minutes)is repeated and results uploaded. The administrator now has Current, Goal and Result data to evaluate the success of the investment in the program.

Example 2. The City of Surrey is investing $30,000 in running a pilot School Travel Planning program in 3 schools in Surrey. The program brings together municipal engineering, school, public safety personnel, teacher and parents to identify impediments (city or school infrastructure, attitudes) to active travel to school and create solutions. Currently, paper surveys and hands up survey's are used to quantify pre and post program travel behaviours. Using the IST tools as in the above example, real qualitative data is now available to justify the program expenditure.

Most events that take place in parks, forests or remote locations need to use generators for electricity. These generators are noisy, smelly and use fossil fuels to run.

Our system is 100% renewable energy. We harvest solar power from the sun and generate power with bicycles. The system is silent and user friendly.
There is informative signage and information available for people with questions. Plus we have staff on hand to do system support and talk to people all day and night. Our bike power system has staff and volunteers to help people on and off the bikes, as well as answer questions.

Our system is capable of putting out 8KW of power. This is enough to power a medium size stage, an entire small festival or a large family home. We have long outdoor rated extension cables able to cover long distances so the trailer can be parked with optimum exposure to the sun and still provide power up to 250 feet away.

Upon approaching the solar/bike power unit for the first time the average person has many immediate questions.
"How does it work?"
"How much power are you getting right now?"
"How much power can it put out?"
"How much power can the batteries hold?"
"How much power are the bikes putting out?"

It's our goal to not only answer these questions but to engage the patrons to the larger questions of: "What is possible with sustainable energy?" and "How can I support sustainable energy in my life?"

The response from people at events is overwhelming in support of sustainable energy and our system.

CSM is currently working with 250 farmers enabling them to switch from subsistence farming to sustainable surpluses production while restoring the land through conservation agriculture practices. The baseline practice in rural Mozambique is deforestation for charcoal production followed by slash & burn agriculture, resulting in extremely degraded soil and low productivity. CSM provides farmers with improved planting materials and extension services assisting them in the implementation of agroforestry practices on their own land. Thanks to the improved productivity, farmers are able to produce surpluses and sell them to the market, tripling their incomes, and improving their livelihoods and food security. By diversifying crop production, farmers’ nutrition is also improved. By 2014, CSM’s agroforestry program will involve over 2,000 farmers. Two million trees will have been planted as forest shelterbelts around farmer fields, and smallholder farmers’ income will be tripled. CSM's distribution network in Maputo will reach 100 shops and 80,000 households will be using CSM cooking solution instead of charcoal. This will prevent over 20,000ha of forest destruction annually, and reducing emissions of CO2 and soot by hundreds of thousands of tonnes annually.

Our Tanzanian team, a well established solar installation business, would identify off-grid rural dispensaries that cater to sizeable populations and also have significant ensolation (sunlight). Then, through our partnership with the ministry of health and local government officials as in the successful pilot, we would agree to install solar panels and electrify that dispensary. Once electrified the dispensary will also charge the market rate for cell phone charging. The income from the cell phone charging operations will then be remitted, via mobile banking, to a separate bank account and used to further fund the scalinf of the venture and also support health workers in the rural community.

We recently completed a group purchase with businesses from Cambodia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. They told us that our group purchasing service reduced their costs by 30%, and they were also more confident in the products since we include a third party quality inspection at the factory. On top of that, they saved time because we handled the negotiation, purchasing and logistics process.

So how did we do it?
simple, these 3 companies were going to contact the factory on their own,
not knowing about each other.

But, since they learned about our service, they decided to let us handle the purchase, and we were able to bundle them together and when we approach the factory we were representing 3 buyers, making the order bigger and receiving the bulk pricing from the factory.
(http://tinyurl.com/group-purchasing)

We later got feedback from the business in Zimbabwe, he said he installed the solar system for a family living in a rural area. For the first time in their life they had electricity to power a fridge and TV!
Without the the cost reduction they wouldn't have been able to afford it.

(this kind of feedback is what keeps me going!!!)

Our solution makes a difference by giving remote, and Native comunities that are currently using diesel generators to produce power a lower cost, enviromentaly friendly way to produce power. It will also give comunities, residences, and farms a way to productively use forestry, and agricultural waste that would otherwise be burned without gain.
The Syngas generator consists of four modules allowing versatile optimization of heat and electrical production. The modules include: 1) Syngas generator, 2) Waste heat recovery system and reservoir, 3) Modified natural gas generator, 4)Modified natural gas boiler

1) The syngas generator is the primary unit which partially combusts the biomass into the component gases Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen.
2) The gases are then cleaned and cooled at the heat recovery stage producing combustion quality Syngas. This combustion process feeds hot water to the resevoir for heating.
3) The cooled Syngas can then be piped to the generator to produce electricity. The waste heat can be also be captured at the generator coolant/exhaust, and fed to the reservoir.
4) Syngas can also be piped to the natural gas boiler to produce large volumes of hot water for heating greenhouses, farm buildings and residences. This process can be run concurrently or seperately to the electrical generation.
This process allows for an on-demand thermal method of electrical generation. This is the type of power most favored by utility companies and distributors.

We use renewable energy to provide our input energy and recycle the energy to maximize the return on investment. We have multiple product lines from this operation. Desalination provides sustainable drinking water for the future.

1. A website is made available as a repository of information related to the agricultural sector. information ranging from agriculture statistics, updated price of commodities and tracking options made available in the 3 major languages (Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba).
2. The entire website is converted into a mobile application (cross-platform)downloadable via a mobile code. Individuals can subscribe for daily alerts on various information.
3. A SMS-based solution for people without smart phones, where based on subscription, SMS messages are sent in local language.

4. Provision of a call center in project areas, where fliers containing current information is obtained. A CD-based repository (similar to that web-based) is provided for areas with no power supply.

Sixty percent of the population live in rural area, and they don't have access to electricity, and used kerosene lamps for lighting purpose. This project will have lot of impacts on the life style of the people.