'Super-fridge' To Help Improve Lives In Developing Countries

A laudable goal to achieve with 2 Million BGP R&D effort. Elsewhere read the projected cost for one of these wonderful units would be 30 GBP. Nowhere did I find any details of how much refrigeration, cooking heat, and/or electrical output was to be expected and it is to be biomass energized?

All too many efforts to introduce some new and useful, to western minds, product into a third world OOOPS that should be rural communities in Africa and Asia ends up with said products being used for other that the intended purposed or abandoned because of an ingrained reluctance to accept anything new and/or different from the tradional.

I live in Mysore in India so called a developing country. I also go to so called developed countries mostly USA in my line of work which is connected with energy. I fully agree with you the effort to introduce some new and useful product having a need in USA is not much relevant in India. This is one of the basic "problem" which is very rarely taken into consideration. I would like to know if an astronauts suits a marvel of technology , design and development will be accepted by citizens of say New York wearing it and going about their daily work? It is appropriate ideas which links to appropriate needs and appropriate technologies. Super fridge, I personally feel, is like the quest for the perpetual machine by a group of well minded people of Imperial College.

chandu krishnamurthi