Renewable Energy for the Developing World: Hands-On (REDWHO)
workshop combines classroom lecture with hands-on labs and renewable
energy projects in the
community. In the classroom
portion, students will gain a
basic understanding of many different renewable energy system types, including solar-electricity,
micro-hydro electricity,
wind-electricity, solar cooking, solar hot water, and methane
biogas digesters. Participants
will learn the components, applications, and limitations for each system type. Once we have covered the
basics, it is time to get our hands dirty!
The majority of this workshop is
spent doing hands-on projects in
the local community. As a participant in this international workshop, you will have the opportunity to
install systems that can dramatically
improve the living conditions of the local community. Participants will get to tour existing systems and
will work together to install new
ones. Participants will join with Sol Verde, a women?s solar cooking cooperative from
Guanacaste,Costa Rica, to build (and test) solar cookers.
Participants will also help install a small solar-electric system on an unelectrified rural school, and
will work together with
Sustainable Harvest Honduras to build a methane biogas digester for the Durika community. These hands-on installations give participants the opportunity to
interact with local members of the
community and gain real-life experience working in the developing world.
John