A solar powered fridge?

Trip Start Aug 26, 2005
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Trip End May 26, 2008


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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

A friend of the English guy im travelling with lives here in Siguatepeque. Its the third largest town in Honduras and almost a liveable place. The locals are friendly enough and the central park is almost nice enough to spend an afternoon in.
His name is Mike and is an engineering graduate from a high profile university in England. He has come up with an ingenious idea to construct a Solar Powered Fridge for the remote communities out here. Considering Honduras and the majority of these 3rd world central american countries still burn diesel for fuel, its sure to be a winner.
Sula, the organisation for dairy products in Honduras were in need of a way to provide higher quality milk to the country. The problem now is that the dairy farmers, still  way behind the times, will milk their 6 or so cows early in the morning. They have no means of refrigeration, so the fresh milk will often sit in the sun until a car comes to pick it up. Often this is a day or 2 later. The car then takes the warm milk along a few bumpy roads and finally to a refrigerated depository in a nearby town. By the time the milk gets there its dobled in size and full of bacteria, classing it as a GRADE C milk.
With the help of this remote refrigerator, the farmers will be able to refrigerate the milk directly after seqeezing the cows teets and hopefully provide GRADE A milk.
Its a good idea and hopefully in the next few weeks Mike will be abe to get his fridge out to the farmers.

3 days talking about fridges was enough. Trevor and I ran north to the Caribbean sea...
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