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Michigan Tech Student From China Brings Solar Power To His Home Village
Michigan Tech Student From China Brings Solar Power To His Home Village
January 19, 2014 - Matt Roush
Yawei Wei in his native Chinese village, Zao Yuan, with a solar power installation he engineered on his cousin’s roof. Michigan Tech photo.
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Every Chinese New Year, the people in Zao Yuan, a rural village of about 2,000 people in China’s Shanxi Province, celebrate by watching TV and cooking food on electric appliances.
And every Chinese New Year, the local power grid can’t handle the load of everybody using everything at once — and so every Chinese New Year, there’s a blackout in Zao Yuan.
Yawei Wei is from Zao Yuan, but right now he’s studying for a master’s degree in power engineering at Michigan Technological University. And thanks to his studies, he got to wondering: How do we stop the New Year’s blackout back home?
Grid improvements would be too costly. Like rural America in the 1930s, rural China lags behind cities when it comes to electrical service.
But how about using modern technology to leapfrog the grid?....
January 19, 2014 - Matt Roush
Yawei Wei in his native Chinese village, Zao Yuan, with a solar power installation he engineered on his cousin’s roof. Michigan Tech photo.
...
Every Chinese New Year, the people in Zao Yuan, a rural village of about 2,000 people in China’s Shanxi Province, celebrate by watching TV and cooking food on electric appliances.
And every Chinese New Year, the local power grid can’t handle the load of everybody using everything at once — and so every Chinese New Year, there’s a blackout in Zao Yuan.
Yawei Wei is from Zao Yuan, but right now he’s studying for a master’s degree in power engineering at Michigan Technological University. And thanks to his studies, he got to wondering: How do we stop the New Year’s blackout back home?
Grid improvements would be too costly. Like rural America in the 1930s, rural China lags behind cities when it comes to electrical service.
But how about using modern technology to leapfrog the grid?....
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/01/19/michigan-tech-student-from-china-brings-solar-power-to-his-home-village/
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