Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South Essential Technolog
Presenting the best papers of the 3rd EPFL-UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development, this publication offers a valuable collection of innovative case studies exploring access to energy and renewable energy technologies in the Global South.
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tainable Access to Energy in the Global South Essential Technologies and Implementation Approaches
Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South
Silvia Hostettler Ashok Gadgil Eileen Hazboun •
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Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South Essential Technologies and Implementation Approaches
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Editors Silvia Hostettler Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
Eileen Hazboun Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
Ashok Gadgil Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-20208-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20209-9
ISBN 978-3-319-20209-9
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Preface
When I was in elementary school in the 1960s, my younger brother and I spent our summers with our grandparents in our ancestral village. Coming from the city life of Mumbai, with electricity, piped running water, and cooking gas delivered reliably to my parents’ apartment, the village was truly a different world. Summertime on the Indian coast is very hot and humid. The rhythm of life was very different from that in Mumbai. In the village, children and adults would hike a kilometer up a hill each day to fetch drinking water. My grandmother would cook all our meals with fuel wood in the mysteriously dark smoky kitchen. At night, the house remained mostly dark despite a small kerosene lantern that was lit for only a couple of hours after sunset. Every few days, my grandmother would grind grain by hand on a heavy stone wheel to make flour for chapatis. There were no phones, television, or radio at
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