Until recently, a store selling groceries in a village in Zambia couldn’t sell cold drinks: It didn’t have access to electricity to power a fridge. But the store now has a solar panel on the roof ...

Keeping food fresh without refrigeration is near impossible in the scorching climate of sub-Saharan Africa. But it’s hard to power fridges in a region where almost 600 million people live off the grid ...

In early June, my colleague Sam Dean sent me an enthusiastic yet slightly cryptic Slack message: “The fridges are spreading!” He attached a link to an Instagram post of a refrigerator in front of what ...

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23 year old Emily Cummins has become the first female, and only European, to be awarded an Oslo Business for Peace Honouree by a jury of Nobel prize winners recently in Norway. Cummins was chosen as ...

A fridge that positively thrives in direct sunlight might seem a bit of a strange idea, but if you find yourself in a baking hot country where keeping your medical supplies cool and fresh could mean ...

Both the Glacier fridge-freezer and Wave 2 air conditioner can be powered by battery and recharged directly via solar energy. When he's not testing the latest phones or phone cameras, Andrew can ...

GoSun has long relied on the Sun as the power source for its off-grid cooking systems, and two years ago it directed the Sun's radiant energy toward cooling, adding the Chill portable fridge to its ...

True Energy just unveiled their Vaccine Refrigerator, a solar-powered fridge that is capable of keeping medicine cool and safe without a connection to the grid. This refrigerator would allow medical ...

These days we rely so much on electricity, that when there's a power cut, things fall apart. Food goes off, beer gets cold, and we can't be having that. The 4Patriots Patriot Solar Go Fridge stands ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — President Biden this month announced plans to ship a half a billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine to the 100 lowest income countries in the world. That would include Sierra ...