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Community Projects, Processing & Food Preservation by Craig Mackintosh August 11, 2008 Sometimes you will find easy methods to common requirements that not want coal fired energy, fossil fuels, or even solar power panels or wind generators. Around a of the world's populace don't have any use of energy. Your entire life has been spent by you having the ability to put in, if you're like me. Do we actually provide a thought to if the different devices we've come to depend on were to suddenly go wrong what life could be like? Among the most power guzzling devices within our carbon footprint profile may be the fridge. But, disconnect it, and the caliber of your lifetime may suddenly decline. Simply take that thought, and imagine residing in a hot dry region in Africa, without energy, where food rapidly wilts and degrades in sunlight, assisted by onslaughts of travels. One present day guru, conscious of the essential need to protect food, has solved the issue for all. Mohammed Bah Abba, a Nigerian teacher, created the 'system' an ice box that doesn't need energy! From a group of pot-makers, Mohammed has made admirably easy utilization of the laws of thermodynamics to produce the pot-in-pot ice box, termed a Zeer in Arabic. Listed here is how it works. You get two earthen pots, both being exactly the same form but different styles, and place one within another. Then, fill the area between your two containers with sand before pouring water in to the same hole to help make the sand moist. Then, position foods in to the inner container, and cover with a cover or wet cloth. You simply must make sure the pot-in-pot ice box is maintained in a, well-ventilated space; the laws of thermodynamics does the remainder. As heat is drawn by it from the inner container, cooling its contents, the humidity in the mud disappears. The only real maintenance needed may be the inclusion of more water, around twice each day. 0digg To provide a concept of its efficiency, kale that would normally wilt within hours in the African heat may last around things like tomatoes and peppers, and twelve days in the container that normally struggle several days to survive, now last three months. A life extension is got by aubergines ( eggplants ) from only a couple of days to nearly per month. Inventing the ice box in 1995, Mohammed spread hundreds around Nigerian towns during the late 1990s (originally for liberated to get the term out, then later just production-cost price), and consequently won the Rolex Award for Enterprise in the entire year 2,000. It's enhanced the health and lives of thousands. Less work may result in more training for kids, and small farmers who have been before dropping significant amounts of the harvest are now actually in a position to generate a much better money. Still another knock-on benefit is increased health due to higher availability of vitamins, in addition to a decrease in health issues like dysentery due to the separation of food and flies. It would appear that not totally all the solutions to life's needs need certainly to feature a plug and instruction book. http://www.permacultureusa.org/2008/...t-electricity/