Renewable Energy Powers Education in Rural Peru

August 10, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

Children at a school in a village in Peru are learning and doing their homework on computers despite living without electricity. A renewable energy programe comprised of a windwill and seven solar panels - donations from the European Union - are powering the eager young students' laptops. Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports from Camacho.

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy that comes from resources which are continually replenished such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat. About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewable resources, with 10% of all energy from traditional biomass, ... Explore this topic

Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country located in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peruvian territory was ho... Explore this topic

Wind power

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electrical power, windmills for mechanical power, wind pumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships. Large wind farms consist of hundreds of individua... Explore this topic

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Solar energy

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Electricity generation

Electricity generation is the process of generating electrical power from other sources of primary energy. The fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered during the 1820s and early 1830s by the British scientist Michael Faraday. His basic method is still ... Explore this topic

European Union

الاتحاد الأوروبي هو جمعية دولية للدول الأوروبية يضم 27 دولة، تأسس بناء على اتفاقية معروفة باسم معاهدة ماسترخت الموقعة عام 1992 م، ولكن العديد من أفكاره موجودة منذ خمسينات القرن الماضي. من أهم مبادئ الاتحاد الأوروبي نقل صلاحيات الدول القومية إلى المؤسسات الدولية الأوروبية. لكن ... Explore this topic

Solar panel

A solar panel is a packaged, connected assembly of photovoltaic cells. The solar panel can be used as a component of a larger photovoltaic system to generate and supply electricity in commercial and residential applications. Each panel is rated by its DC output power under sta... Explore this topic

Personal computer

A personal computer is a general-purpose computer, whose size, capabilities, and original sale price makes it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator. This contrasted with the batch processing o... Explore this topic

Rural area

In general, a rural area is a geographic area that is located outside cities and towns. The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines the word "rural" as encompassing "...all population, housing, and territory not ... Explore this topic

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