Post on 14-Jun-2015
description
“UC Davis PIET: Building a heuris8c interdisciplinary program focused on dissemina8ng energy technologies in
developing world”
March 25, 2010 NCIIA
Dr. Kurt Kornbluth Director, PIET
Sponsors/Collaborators
• Good: Give a man a fish
• Good: Give a man a fish
• Be0er: Teach a man to fish
• Good: Give a man a fish
• Be0er: Teach a man to fish
• Unless: There’s No river
• Environmental – Pollu8on – Greenhouse gases – Life cycle analysis (LCA) – Habitat
• Social – Cultural – Stakeholders analysis – Development indicators
• Financial – Dissemina8on Strategy – Value Proposi8on – Carbon Credits
• Technical – Available Resources – Performance – Produc8on Cost
• D-‐Lab I Energy and Development: An overview
• D-‐Lab II Energy and Development: Design and Dissemina8on
• D-‐Lab III A hands-‐on approach to Energy Efficiency
• Charcoal from Agricultural Waste • Off-‐Grid ligh8ng • High Efficiency Irriga8on
• Aluminum Salt baTery
• Wind Belt
• Guatemala
• Nigeria • Nicaragua • Costa Rica
• Zambia
• Bangladesh • Hai8
http://piet.ucdavis.edu
“Some8mes you goTa get out of the library”
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
Thomas Edison December, 1879, Menlo Park
Replacing candles and Kerosene in Sub-‐Saharan Africa
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Feasibility Study: “Lighting the Way” Model for Nigeria
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Main Light Source by Income
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Candles
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The D-‐lab 8-‐Step program…
• Find a good home for your program • Build slow and strong • Make D-‐Lab a class and a place
• Make it your mission (others will follow)
• Find interna8onal partners nearby • Leverage your friends • Collabora8on not duplica8on • Constraints are good!