You can help PowerWells say Let there be light for fun, work and homework in the villages of Sumba, Indonesia.
In August 2022, the PowerWells team, including Brad Clair , Nick Kamols , Steph Leahy , Simon Schmidtke , James Taylor , and Jordan Ream , visited the Sumba Sustainable Solutions team to assess the pilot project, diagnose any technical issues, and also install a number of PowerWells alongside the 3S team.
PowerWells Co-Founder Nicholas Kamols, Partnerships Manager Stephanie Leahy, and Co-Founder Bradley Clair processing electronic waste out of Substation33, a core partner for PowerWells. Photo courtesy of PowerWells. One of the issues they dealt with had an amusing cause. Without their elders’ knowledge, some children were using the power generated during the day to play games on their mobile devices. At night there was nothing in the battery to power the lights. The elders reported a malfunction of the equipment, but it was all about kids having fun. We can try and predict how people will use electricity, but there will always be surprises and wrong assumptions.
This is the moment the kids hooked up their phones and tablets to the system. You can see the paint bucket system in the background. Photo courtesy of PowerWells.
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