“UC Davis PIET: Building a heuristic interdisciplinary program focused on disseminating energy technologies in

developing world”

March 25, 2010NCIIA

Dr. Kurt KornbluthDirector, PIET

Sponsors/Collaborators

• Good: Give a man a fish

• Good: Give a man a fish• Better: Teach a man to fish

• Good: Give a man a fish• Better: Teach a man to fish• Unless: There’s No river

• Environmental– Pollution – Greenhouse gases– Life cycle analysis (LCA)– Habitat

• Social– Cultural– Stakeholders analysis– Development indicators

• Financial– Dissemination Strategy– Value Proposition– Carbon Credits

• Technical – Available Resources– Performance– Production Cost

• D-Lab I Energy and Development: An overview

• D-Lab II Energy and Development: Design and Dissemination

• D-Lab III A hands-on approach to Energy Efficiency

• Charcoal from Agricultural Waste• Off-Grid lighting• High Efficiency Irrigation• Aluminum Salt battery• Wind Belt

• Guatemala• Nigeria• Nicaragua• Costa Rica

• Zambia• Bangladesh• Haiti

http://piet.ucdavis.edu

“Sometimes you gotta get out of the library”

“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”

Thomas EdisonDecember, 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

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

$33 andLess

$34-66 $67-100 $101-133 $134 ormore

Income Group

Percent of Respondents

Candles

Electricity

Kerosene

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 international partners nearby• Leverage your friends• Collaboration not duplication• Constraints are good!