Featured in Automation in motion – 05-2010

Uniting water and sun

The story of solar electricity: The eleventh part of our series of chapters from John Perlins book From Space to Earth is the continuation of the Chapter Father Verspieren Preaches the Solar Gospel, about a Catholic priest who initiated a PV water pumping program for Mali that became the model for the developing world.

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pv magazine

17 Sep 2010

Verspieren returned to Mali very much inspired, “hypnotized by the cell.” However, the day-to-day operation of the Mali Aqua Viva network of manual pumps kept him too busy to immediately apply the conversion he underwent at the sheep farm in Corsica. For the moment, he was convinced, his full attention to the current pumping system …

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