the global potentials for small to mid-sized wind (10-500 kw) production: using specific case...
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The Global Potentials for Small to Mid-Sized Wind
(10-500 Kw) Production: Using Specific Case Studies
Thomas L. AckerDean Howard Smith
Brandt WeathersAnd
Anna Zinenko
Solar pumps in Africaincrease agriculturalproductivity andaccess to water.Courtesy of UNEP.
The Global Heartache
No community with a sense of justice, compassion or respect for basic human
rights should accept the current pattern of adaptation. Leaving the world’s poor to
sink or swim with their own meagre resources in the face of the threat posed by climate change is morally wrong. We are drifting into a world of ‘adaptation
apartheid’.Desmond Tutu
World Bank
1.6 billion people have no access to electricity.
UNDPA clear positive
causative correlation between energy access and use and the resulting level of development
Rich nations the oppositeLas Vegas
Dean is Leaving
This is the project I want to develop
IPCCIntergovernmenta
l Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II, estimated that between 75 and 250 million people in Africa alone will be under food and water stress by 2020
Too Much H2ONathifa Janaa cradled her feverish son in the
shade of an acacia tree, looking to the skies that for the last six weeks have brought driving rain and floods to the village of Kumahumato in remote northeastern Kenya.
"I have no food left in the house to feed my family. If my neighbours have nothing to offer then there is just water to drink," said Janaa, rubbing three-year-old Mohammed's malnourished stomach as she awaited the arrival of emergency food rations.
Not Enough H2OSomalia is one of the
countries worst affected by a
drought which has hit the Horn of
Africa, leaving some 11.5 million people in need of food aid.
A Daily Issue: DrinkingThis family in
western Somalia stand
by the roadside, begging for
water night and day. Their well has run dry and
the nearest water is 12km
away
What is your Reality?
Our Kenya Case Study34 million souls144 kilowatt
hours per year! The best I have
had is 270/monthMostly in Nairobi
& touristsLess than 5% of
rural residents
Kikuyu village just outside Nyeri Roughly 150 homes Subsistence
agriculture and growing coffee and corn for export.
The traditional crops of millet, peas and sorghum are still grown.
100 Kilowatt Wind Turbine Is Dropped Into Our Village
This turbine will be a highly advanced collection of technology with various co-generation aspects and co-consumption uses.
Punch line to come!
Home ElectricityLights and CookingThe World Health
Organization has estimated that indoor air pollution is responsible for 1.6 million deaths a year as people use “dung, wood, crop waste and coal” for their essential energy source.
Home Electricity
Increased healthImproved productivity
Improved education
Improved culture
RefrigerationNutritionMedicinesIncreased
productivity
StorageCo-generation hydroClosed water pumping
systemLarge scale experiments
seem to workCheck with Tom Acker
Co-ConsumptionGround water
pumpingMechanical or
electricVillage wells
Desalination as necessaryVarying
technologiesIrrigation
Co-ConsumptionGrinding grainCompressed air
Vehicles for hauling, local transport
Women peer inside structure containing grinding mill purchased with SSH funds. It will allow them to use their time for other important tasks, including child care and engaging in income-generating activities
These products will generate revenue for them that will help maintain the mill and fund further community development projects.
Niger, Special Self-Help Program, US Dept of State.
InputsOutputs
The ConduitImportsRaw Materials
Energy
Waste
Exports
Jacobs’ Conduit
Use, reuse, recycle
Stretching
Tinkering
Jacobs
ExpansionGrowthQuantitative
DevelopmentQualitative
Singing and dancing
FoodMoreNutrition“Overall, about
19.1 percent of the children under age five are estimated to be under weight. About 30.6 percent and 4.8 percent are thought to be stunted and wasted respectively.” UNDP
More Productive“It is estimated that only
53% of the households in Kenya walk for less than 15 minutes to fetch water.”
Less wasted laborClean water
Feedback Loops
Positive loopsVicious circlePolar Ice
Negative LoopsShortages and surplusesIncreased storms
Positive Feedback
More and better food
More and clean water
More and better crops
Loop it
Better nutritionBetter lightingBetter waterBetter education
More stretching
Building materialsBasketsBroomsWoven items
New Exports
Sorghum itemsGrainTinkering
UNDP Action PlanA program for using community based village
banks to provide credit to over 1000 enterprises and training 2000 artisans on product design and development.
Local, sustainable inputs and labor
Other IssuesLeapfrogging technologiesPopulation growth???HIV/AIDS
Watching over the unloading, village elder Abdi Dubat, 57, reminisced about his lost wealth and pride. His once 500-strong herd of cattle, sheep and camels funded his 10 marriages, children's education, even a pilgrimage to Mecca, before consecutive droughts wiped out his herd."The women would see my wealth and shout 'Come and marry me Abdi Dubat'. Now they just run away," he said laughing at himself.
The GoalSinging and Dancing
Punch LineVery few producers