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Producing low-cost solar cooling for developing countries
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The lack of cold chains (the sequence of measures needed to get food fresh and chilled from farm to fork) in many countries leads to large-scale loss of produce and quality, with significant impacts on rural and national incomes. Additionally, it makes food expensive in urban areas, which are becoming increasingly populous. 38% of food grown in Egypt and 48% of India's food suffer from this problem. The problem is the need for the food to be chilled on-farm as soon as it is harvested. This is difficult and expensive without mains electricity. Solar Polar's cooling modules don't need mains electricity to operate. The modules can operate both day and night due to a thermal energy storage component, have no moving parts, and provide cooling with zero carbon emissions, thus making enormous improvements to all concerned lives.
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April 9, 2021
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United Kingdom
Maturity stage
Prototype testing in the real world
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Network, New clients, Visibility, Funding, Partners, Credibility
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The environmental benefits
- •Cooling without electricity - 100% reduction in CO2 emission cooling using solar over electrically driven alternative
- •No moving parts, little maintenance, a life in service of 30 years plus.
- •Uses only natural refrigerants, no greenhouse gasses
- •SP use a natural refrigerant and therefore avoids the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases, and of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
- •Reduction in food waste can give an Indian farmer a ten-fold increase in income and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from rotting food
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The Financial benefits
- •Repayment time of 3 to 5 years dependent on the cost of electricity
- •Works in off-grid communities
- •Local manufacture brings jobs as well as cooling
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Company Profile
Solar Polar Limited
Solar Polar is bringing to market solar refrigeration and air-conditioning modules that requires no electricity,
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Headquarters
Maxwell Rd, Peterborough PE2 7JN, UK
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Networking Partner
Cambridge Cleantech
Cambridge Cleantech is a successful network organization that has, since 2011, brokered hundreds of key business collaborations in the cleantech industry.
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