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We seek to illustrate a ten year Centre of Excellence (COE) driven, integrated agriculture to Industry bioenergy project for the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. (Two-Three years to set up and establish first harvest values + ten yea...
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- What is the name of your company or organisation?
- Kyoto Energy Ltd.
- What is your position in your company or organisation?
- Managing Director
- What does your company of organisation do?
- Design and manufacture of cost effective solar energy products.
Kyoto Box solar cooker
Kyoto Bag solar water heater bag
Kyoto Flash light
Kyoto Turbo smokeless bio stove
SunTrap solar water heaters
Butterfly solar concentrators
- In which African countries does your company or organisation operate?
- Kenya, soon South Africa (also active in Indonesia)
- What is your website?
- http://www.kyoto-energy.com
Comment Wall (23 comments)
- At 6:07am on November 6, 2009,
Ng Zhimao said…
- Dear Jon,
Salvo Global has launched a Masterclass that targeted at Engineers and other technical staff who do not have formal training in financial management, but who require a better understanding of the concepts of cost management and capital project evaluation. In addition, the related concepts of profits, assets, productivity and profitability will be addressed.
We really wish Engineers or Technical experts like you could spare time to attend this Masterclass
For more information http://www.salvoglobal.com/finance.asp
With Regards
Ng Zhimao
Zhimao@salvoglobal.com
- At 3:38pm on August 2, 2009,
CLIVE RICHARDSON said…
- I have contacts at Bandung Uni Indonesia and more across all SE Asia.
- At 5:28pm on July 22, 2009,
Brendan O.A. Harding said…
- Hello Jon,
I help run an eye-testing program near the village of Nuu (not far from Mwingi) and have discussed a trial program for the Kyoto Box with our partners from a religious community.
The way I see it is this; the religious community involved have projects running all over the world in areas of great need - ideal locations for the Kyoto Box to benefit communities to their utmost. I have said that on my next visit I will source samples for them to distribute through their communities and it will then be in their hands how to proceed.
Anything which stops deforestation in Kenya and other places has to be good.
I'm sure you've been asked a million times but here it goes again... where can I get hold of the boxes in Nairobi or elsewhere?
Many thanks
Brendan O.A. Harding
Ireland
- At 6:13pm on June 12, 2009,
Lewis Chisholm said…
- It seems so in the short run but long term, if there is a significant net positive production of electricity while using the roofs of the houses in a neighborhood, lets say,to produce it, the cost would be spread out over a very long period into the future.
Wind mills are a producer of electricity, indirectly from the sun, but that is all they do.
The long term transition to fully solar electricity is, in my mind, comming soon so I will continue working on incorporateing it into our daily lives.
Thank you for your insight / best of success for the future.
Sincerely,
Lewis
- At 11:22pm on June 11, 2009,
Lewis Chisholm said…
- Thanks Jon for commenting back.
Well the Idea I have been experimenting with came about in an interesting way.
My son & I built a 200 square foot storeroom on our farm & since we as a company distribute & install window film (Tinting), we decided to make the roof out of glass & put the Silver film ,that rejects 80% of the suns heat, on the glass roof. The building was great but got too hot, so we decided to put sides on the glass roof & keep water up on top of the roof like a shallow fishtank for a roof. It did make the room cooler but we noticed how hot the water got.
The idea that has precipitated out of this is to build a system of these shallow fish-tank like structures with a layer of silver mirrow film on the outside layer of the glass followed by a completely black layer on the outside of the silver layer. These layers reflect the sunlight back into the water & the light that goes through the silver film will be absorbed & radiated back into the water by the completely black layer of window film.
The different chambers of the system would become increasingly shallow so as to allow the water to step up in temp. all the way to boiling by going into successively shallower pools. This super hot water would then be stored in a highly insulated tank & used in a micro steam turbine which would use electricity from the grid to run the turbine but would pump more electricity back into the grid than it used during the final heating of the water in the micro steam turbine.
In this way, the rooftops of buildings can be used to create electricity.
The maintaining of the water on the roof also makes the building much easier to heat or cool.
Thats it in a nutshell.
Lewis
- At 4:03pm on June 9, 2009,
Lewis Chisholm said…
- Jon,
I have come up with a system of converting sunlight into electricity using similar ideas to those used by you guys in your oven. It is very cheap to produce. Maybe we could team up. Do you have patents?
Sincerely,
Lewis chisholm
lewischisholm@hotmail.com
- At 6:08pm on May 1, 2009,
Ernest Ming said…
- Thanks Jon, I wrote back to your email.
- At 11:30am on April 30, 2009,
Brendan O.A. Harding said…
- Good day Jon,
the offer is most kind of you. I shall be back in Nariobi shortly to establish a writing course for young adults and I will look you up then. Many thanks and regards.
Brendan Harding
- At 3:27pm on April 28, 2009,
Brendan O.A. Harding said…
- What a wonderful creation you have given life to. I hope someday we can meet and then I can tell my part of the world about your great invention.
Regards
Brendan Harding
- At 2:05pm on April 27, 2009,
Ernest Ming said…
- Dear Jon, it has been my priviledge to get to know you. We are very interested in exploring synergies together and would like to take the opportunity for you to know more about us and to explore potential projects together.
We have more than 20 years experience in environmental projects in China including our pioneering and participating some of the most significant projects in Southern China such as the 1st International Sanitary Landfill BOT project in Guangzhou (XinFeng) and Guangdong Province Hazardous Waste Demonstration Center (1st in Southern China). We work very closely with the Chinese government and is moving to work on more rural and poor areas of China and possibly into India, Nepal and Africa and would love the opportunity to exchange ideas together.
Please leave me a comment and contact details and we can initiate dialogue.
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