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You Light Up My Strife
Solar LED lamps provide clean, cheap lighting to rural poor |
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05 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| You Light Up My Strife Solar LED lamps provide clean, cheap lighting to rural poor A handful of villagers in rural India are receiving a life-transforming technology: low-cost, solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lamps. Bombay-based Grameen Surya Bijli Foundation has installed the $55 lamps free of charge in about 300 homes. "Children can now study at night, elders can ma ... |
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