POST 01037E : SOLAR REFRIGERATOR
Follow-up on Posts 01019E, 01027E and 01032E
10 January 2007
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This posting contsins two contributions. The
first is from Brigitte Touré
(mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/WCARO and
the second from Terkulah Ben Alagh
(mailto:[email protected]) also from UNICEFD but
the Bauchi sub-office in Nigeria.
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Dear all,
In term of solar fridges, may I give the southern
Sudan experience: it was not successful for mainly three reasons
1) You need to have available within the country
specialized technicians for maintenance, in southern Sudan it was not the case
2) The environment should be secured: solar
panels are attractive items often stolen,
therefore most of the solar fridges were regularly looted
3) The cost of acquisition is twice expensive than other fridges (e.g SIBIR)
Season's greetings,
Best regards,
Brigitte
Dr Brigitte Adjagba Touré,
Conseiller Régional Polio / Immunisation
UNICEF - Bureau Régional pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
Yoff, Dakar, Sénégal
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Bob
I agree with you altogether about the land mass
and the access to trained personnel for repairs.
I just wonder is solar technology so esoteric
that the capacity (and confidence) of these local
repairmen cannot be enhanced to support? 120,000
square kilometers is not absolutely small but I
guess you are comparing this to some countries eg
Nigeria, Congo DR etc. In this sense, it becomes picayune.
It seems to me the way to achieve the desired
results is to increase the number of skilled
technicians available to address solar problems
as soon as they occur. Electricity's reach is
increasing slowly but with public sector reforms
and cost recovery schemes all over the developing
world, it is doubtful that many of the physically
unreached will benefit too much even when this
barrier is broken...the economic barriers remain
to be surmounted. So I honestly see solar
technology providing the means of extending
immunization coverage for a while yet.
Rgds
Terkula Ben Alagh ,
APO EPI ,
UNICEF D Field Office ,
Bauchi, Nigeria.
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