paraguay | jul-16 | future technology options and productive use
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PRODUCTIVE USE AND
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
Bernie Jones
Claudia Canales
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ENERGY => DEVELOPMENT?
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ENERGY => DEVELOPMENT?
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PRODUCTIVE USE
• personal
– Home lighting
– Radio
– Cooking
• economic
– Micro-enterprises
– Anchor loads
– Agricultural processing
• Social/community
– Education
– Public health
– Communication/Information/Engagement
– etc
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PRODUCTIVE USE
• personal existing
– Home lighting technology
– Radio
– Cooking
• economic
– Micro-enterprises
– Anchor loads
– Agricultural processing
• Social/community
– Education
– Public health
– Communication/Information/Engagement new
– Etc innovations
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ENERGY INNOVATION
• Biofuel
• Solar
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ENERGY INNOVATION - HYDRO
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OTHER ENERGY SOURCES
• Geothermal
• Tidal/Wave power
• Physical power from humans/animals
and more futuristic…
• Ocean temperature
• Heat (solar, geothermal etc)
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ENERGY STORAGE
• Don’t: anchor loads that only run when the sun shines or the water flows…
• Battery research
• Re-use of eg electric vehicle batteries
• Liquid/gaseous fuels
More futuristic…
• Thermal (eg heat something up during the day, use the heat at night)
• Kinetic storage (eg flywheels)
• Compressed air
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INNOVATIONS IN ENERGY USE
• Efficient devices
– lower power fridges, freezers, laptops, tv’s
– low power grinding, milling, welding
– low voltage DC instead of AC
– improved/more flexible LED technology
• Lighting, UV LEDs to purify water?
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INNOVATIONS IN ENERGY USE
• Innovative communications technology
– Facebook’s internet.org project (satellite based)
– Google’s Loon project (balloon based)
• Innovative information use
– agricultural knowledge & management
– remote education, democratic engagement etc
• Innovative devices
– especially in health
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QUANTUMDX – HANDHELD DNA SEQUENCING IN 15
MINUTES FROM ANY SAMPLE
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SWASTHYA SLATE – LAB IN A RUCKSACK FOR
OFF-GRID VILLAGE PRIMARY CARE
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FRUGAL TECHNOLOGIES (FLEXIBLE AND INCLUSIVE)
THINKING OUTSIDE THE (HOT) BOX
Jaideep Prabhu
Smart Villages Workshop, January 2014
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CAMBRIDGE COGNITION - REALTIME MENTAL
HEALTH DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT MONITORING
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3D PRINTING FOR NOT JUST EQUIPMENT PARTS
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OTHERS • Distribution/power engineering
– low voltage DC grids
– distributed generation, and power-sharing
• Entrepreneurship
– eg mobile phone technology for payments/metering/system
control
• Innovative financing technologies, crowdfunding etc
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CONCLUSIONS
• Technology is evolving fast
• There is a lot of research that we (and others) don’t
know about
• New technology opens the door to new impacts on the
ground
• Often, (especially academic) researchers have not
considered rural applications of their “hi-tech” research