CAIRO: 23-year old British student Emily Cummins has invited a simple yet brilliant solar-powered fridge, which is now helping families in Namibia, South Afria, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Not only is the refrigerator solar powered, it is also constructed from simple household materials, making it accessible to many. Without using any electricity, the fridge keeps its contents at a chilly 43 degrees F, keeping good like milk and meat cold for days. Cummins said that she came up with the idea while working on a science project for school. “I wanted to keep it really simple and so I set about researching how we cooled things years ago. The simplest method of cooling something could be seen when you look at how we cool biologically – through sweating or evaporation,” she explained in an interview with the Daily Mail. “That idea led me to the design and the fridge was born.” She said that she hopes to develop a more portable model to help transport medical goods to places in need. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/NynHX Tags: Solar Power Section: Business, Going Green, Tech
