Featured in Chinese Connection – 04-2010

Father Verspieren preaches the solar gospel

The story of solar electricity: The tenth part of our series with chapters from John Perlin’s book From Space to Earth tells the story of Dominique Campana, who developed the world’s first PV-powered water pump, and Father Bernard Verspieren, who initiated a PV water pumping program for Mali that became the model for the developing world.
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The twentieth century had never witnessed drought and famine of such immense proportions as that which hit the African states situated directly below the Sahara in the 1970s. “People and livestock fell like flies” as a consequence. The little-known countries of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal gained global recognition as the world learned of …

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