Refrigeration is essential in preserving vaccines, and the broader availability of refrigeration could help reduce the estimated 1.5 million deaths a year attributable to vaccine-preventable disease (WHO, 2019).Of the 600,000 who fall sick, more than half die. These illnesses afflict 1 in 10 people globally every year (WHO, 2019). At-home refrigerators provide safe food storage, decreasing the chances of food-borne illnesses.Nearly 50% of fruit and vegetables are lost in Sub-Saharan Africa and India, according to a 2014 report from The Institute of Mechanical Engineers.What is not widely recognized is the role refrigeration will play. Achieving all this is an enormous challenge. By 2030, the Global Goals set out to to banish hunger, poverty and inequality ensure universal access to safe water, education, health care, clean energy and decent work and secure peace, justice, economic growth and sustainability. The ability to create cold is significant and is recognized in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. See off-grid refrigeration devices such as Evaptainer and Coolbot Walk-In Cooler in E4C’s Solutions Library And, most of us living in the West could not envision life without it. It unlocks productive potential in communities for uses spanning agriculture, small business and restaurants, beverage retailers, and more.
Refrigeration means less food waste, more opportunities for farmers, fewer trips to the market for perishable items, and safe storage for leftovers as well as for high-quality vaccines. With a myriad of benefits, both large and small, the development of refrigeration technologies and approaches could have enormous potential, improving the lives of millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet. Issuing Engineers Without Borders USA’s first international Challenge competition, “The Chill Challenge,” they’re open to working with just about anyone-backyard inventors, students, universities, and companies-to provide refrigeration to the hundreds of millions of people who get their power from off-grid energy systems. With distinguished careers, an impressive array of projects, and close to a century’s worth of combined experience in engineering and humanitarian work behind them, they’re looking for some out-of-the-icebox thinking on refrigeration. Andrew Dowdy are trying to solve the problem of refrigeration for off-grid communities in developing countries. OctoCreating Cold: The Chilling Challenge of Off-Grid Refrigeration for Developing Countries
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