Daniel Purt
VaccineNewsDaily.com
06/10/2010
A solar powered refrigerator has been developed by Appropriate Technology Collaborative that will allow vaccines to be cooled in parts of the world without electricity.
The ATC refrigerator provides the necessary cooling without using any electricity and is designed to be built locally, which means that expensive technology does not need to be imported from other countries.
“The ATC Solar Vaccine Refrigerator is a robust, easy to maintain technology that can be made in the country or region where it is to be used,” ATC said, according to inhabitat.com. “It is made out of simple materials that can be found in most cities: steel, charcoal and ethanol or methanol. The finished product has no moving parts that need maintenance and it doesn’t use electricity of any kind. One simply places it in sunlight and it freezes. Period. If the sun doesn’t shine it can run on biofuels.”
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