June 2008 Archives

It's winter again in South America and the temperature is dropping in southern Argentina, particularly at night. There's a real problem with heating again, particularly among the indigenous communities in the rural areas. Children such as the one in the photo below tend to suffer the most from the cold.

That's why we're going to be doing some solar thermal, using the heat from the sun to generate heat in-doors as well as hot water. When we were there last year, the temperates dropped to -16 degrees at night. We were staying in unheated hostels in the plateaus and we were freezing cold - a solar heating system would have worked wonders.

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