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Last week we welcomed the first solar sauna guest in in the Swiss Alps
Project: Lytefire Sauna - 1 week ago
Urs and Judith won a cool contest last week at Impact Hub Zürich and soon they'll organize a solar sauna + pizza event ❤️
Project: Lytefire Sauna - 1 week ago
Issaka bakes around 30kg of bread each baking day and yet he spends more than he earns on wood fuel. If his crowdfunding succeeds he could bake twice as much and spend less than half.
2 months ago
Adama, Issaka and Lorin have a planning and brainstorming session about the opportunities for solar entrepreneurs.
Project: Crowdfunding for Adama and Issaka’s Solar Bakery in Burkina Faso - 2 months ago
"It's a unique, downright revolutionary sauna that gets all its power from solar energy!" - awesome to read this from Finland's Sauna Expert Saunologia!
Project: Lytefire Sauna - 2 months ago
Wood and charcoal cost money, and if people can save a few coins, they will. Issaka didn't know that he could bake bread using sunlight... most people don't. We're on a mission to change that.
Project: Crowdfunding for Adama and Issaka’s Solar Bakery in Burkina Faso - 3 months ago
Niiiice! First press coverage of the carbon neutral solar sauna in Swiss Newspaper "Prättigauer Herrschäftler"
Project: Lytefire Sauna - 3 months ago
Issaka is burning more value in wood than he earns in profit. Lytefire will change his life! Support the campaign now!
Project: Crowdfunding for Adama and Issaka’s Solar Bakery in Burkina Faso - 3 months ago
Lytefire News
Last week we welcomed the first solar sauna guest in in the Swiss Alps
1 July
"Solar Sauna & Pizza | Nachhaltiges Wellnesserlebnis kommt nach Zürich! "
1 July
Urs and Judith won a cool contest last week at Impact Hub Zürich and soon they’ll organize a solar sauna + pizza event ❤️
1 July
Issaka bakes around 30kg of bread each baking day and yet he spends more than he earns on wood fuel. If his crowdfunding succeeds he could bake twice as much and spend less than half.
30 April
Adama, Issaka and Lorin have a planning and brainstorming session about the opportunities for solar entrepreneurs.
22 April
Awesome podcast released by Sustainable Tampere on the Lytefire Sauna. Topic: Shaking Traditions in Finland.
16 April
"It’s a unique, downright revolutionary sauna that gets all its power from solar energy!" - awesome to read this from Finland’s Sauna Expert Saunologia!
16 April
First Finnish press from Saunologia, sauna expert.
15 April
Wood and charcoal cost money, and if people can save a few coins, they will. Issaka didn’t know that he could bake bread using sunlight... most people don’t. We’re on a mission to change that.
14 April
Niiiice! First press coverage of the carbon neutral solar sauna in Swiss Newspaper "Prättigauer Herrschäftler"
13 April
Have you heard music from Burkina Faso?
Burkina Faso - The Land of People with Integrity Listen to Adama and Brakiss jam about sustainability, GoSol and Burkina Faso. .embed-responsive-4by3::before padding-top: 75%;
13 April
Crowdfunding for a Solar Bakery in Burkina Faso
We are very happy to have launched a small crowdfunding campaign to support two dynamic guys in Burkina Faso to create a solar bakery and cultural space. Adama Bafiago, an artist and activist, was an early supporter of our first crowdfunding campaign in 2015. He immediately saw the potential (...)
1 April
Issaka is burning more value in wood than he earns in profit. Lytefire will change his life! Support the campaign now!
1 April
Powerful talk: it’s all connected.
You need to take 7 minutes and watch this, it’s definitely worth! Here’s our Chief Operating Officer Urs Riggenbach talking about solar, climate crisis, sustainability and entrepreneurship. "My hope is that we’re not just fixing the carbon issue. We’re fixing, along with this carbon issue, we’re (...)
31 March
Our solar carbon neutral sauna is opening an event at Skoll Forum happening on-line on Zoom on March 31st, 5-7pm Helsinki time. Link to join: www.sepia-agency.fi/skoll
31 March
We’re coming to your doorstep!
Last Christmas, as an act of faith in people’s empowerment and in our solution to play a significant role in climate change crisis resolution, we have released in open source and for free the construction manual of one of our solar concentrator. Since then, the successful GoSol’s prototypes (...)
30 March
Another solar baking record in France! The Neoloco bakery made 76kg of solar bread today in the Normandy ☀
26 March
An event of Skoll Forum for Social Entrepreneurs opening with the solar sauna is featured by Finnish Business Angel Network.
26 March
Beautiful crispy golden brown cheesy solar pizzas!! Just one of the many things our soon to be solar entrepreneurs can bake.
25 March
Solar Sauna moving up into the mountains on the snow!
24 March
Issaka and Adama, two longtime friends want to take baking to the next level with Lytefire! Help them reach their goal, see below!
24 March
Issaka is burning massive quantities of wood every day and it costs him a lot of money. Contribute to his campaign and help him go solar!
23 March
Today marks the completion of the second prototype of the solar sauna. This one is fully mobile on snow. We’ll bring it up high into the mountains this weekend for tests.
18 March
Lytefire can mean an end to energy poverty in the developing world.
25 February
News coverage by Le Parisien
25 February
Today we moved the sauna to a new location, right in front of the Arflina building at Heuberge.
15 February
"Begeistert ist er allerdings von einer energieautarken Outdoor-Solarsauna, die das finnische Startup Lytefire zusammen mit der Heuberge AG errichten will. "
12 February
Lake still not frozen in Finland!
Video Message from Eva, chairperson of GoSol / Solar Fire: My hope is not an illusion, it’s real and strong but today I’m sad, and angry. Everybody can have an impact. Wake up. Speak up. Share the free material. .embed-responsive-4by3::before padding-top: (...)
10 February
Done installing the solar sauna in place. Tomorrow comes the Lytefire 4 to run first tests!
9 February
We managed to install the sauna outside but it got late, we’ll start testing tomorrow.
8 February
"I could have done 60kg maybe. I think up to 150kg per day are possible with Lytefire 10. It’s the 6th of Feb here in Normandie, France...
8 February
Lorin in Burkina Faso with Vincent Nikiema from SOS Burkina Energie
6 February
Arnaud Cretot: "100km/h wind tonight. Some broken trees. But machine IS 100% safe"
5 February
Our Gift to the World: The Lytefire Construction Guide Available Now!
Today we release the Lytefire 4 Construction Guide to help solve the climate change crisis. It is immediately available for free on the Lytefire.com Website. After years behind the screen, in the field, working with entrepreneurs to develop solar technology that brings value to people (...)
24 December 2019