Designwala » electricity http://www.designwala.org We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.-------Marshall McLuhan Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:49:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Sun King Solar Lantern – Energy everyone can afford http://www.designwala.org/2009/12/the-sun-king-solar-lantern-energy-everyone-can-afford/ http://www.designwala.org/2009/12/the-sun-king-solar-lantern-energy-everyone-can-afford/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:49:30 +0000 admin http://www.designwala.org/?p=333

Greenlight Planet is a startup based in Mumbai that sells affordable solar LED lights targeted at rural India. The sustainable solar design is a substitute for the kerosene lamps widely used in rural india. The lamp provides 16 hrs of electricity on a single days charge and is known to be twice as bright as its unsustainable predecessor. The lamp costs less than Rs 1000 and has been designed by Patrick Walsh of the US and Mumbai’s Vaibhav Tidke. The product is named the Sun KingTM solar lantern.

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