Mobile phone company Mascom has created a solar-powered network in this desert country of two million, and now plans to use it to deliver broadband internet service as well.
Hoping to reduce reliance on imported energy, Namibia is encouraging homeowners and businesses to use renewable energy, and to feed any excess into the grid.
Scientists at the University of Newcastle have spent more than a decade refining plastic polymer technology to create liquid semiconductors that can be used to make solar cells.
The first to take advantage of solar energy in Chile’s Atacama desert, the company Subsole launches a solar project that will power their irrigation and homes in a neighboring town.
On the north coast of Colombia, Grupo Daabon has 20,000 acres of organic African palm plantations, feeding a biodiesel boom. The South American country has mandated that commercial diesel must contain 20 percent biodiesel by 2020.
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