Madagascar's Rural Clinics Powered by Solar Panels

10.06.2008 | 12:10:09 pm | Posted by INHABITAT

Solar panels are unique among sources of clean and renewable energy for their ability to generate electricity practically anywhere in the world. Recently Madagascar joined with the Development Intervention Fund to begin retrofitting a number of rural clinics with photovoltaic cells. For those in energy-deprived communities who are in need of medical care, having access to solar energy can literally mark the difference between life and death. (more ) ...

 
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