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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by izend on Monday September 05, 2022 @12:48PM (#32726355)
For a 2.5 kW solar system would cost somewhere around $2-5K USD and the 5kWH battery would also cost $2-5K USD. I don’t think the average Rwanda citizen has $5-10K available to install just enough power to run their fridge.
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by Panzer04 on Monday September 05, 2022 @07:49PM (#32730840)
It would certainly be on the low end I would expect, and only getting cheaper. It's unfortunate that Rwanda is so poor that even that is far too much :(
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by photochemsyn on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:12PM (#32728089)
Well that system would produce maybe 9X what the fridge needs so you'd have a lot of extra power for other uses, like AC, lights, cooking, online gaming...
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