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Solar Cooking in Marseille, France, 5-8 May
Solar Cooking in Marseille, France, 5-8 May Click here if you wish to translate this newsletter. ☀️ ☀️ There is a great celebration of solar cooking to come next month in Marseille. We hope that many people will gather and test different models of solar cookers. Spread the word in your (…)
Solar Fire bakery breaks even in Kenya!
The best reward for a company is a happy customer! Joan Ogwang is not one of them. She’s a woman entrepreneur from Kenya. In Kisumu, she created the "Solar Fire Bakery" in 2022. She trained herself and started with a first Lytefire oven. At that time, she was part of our team of trainers (…)
Lytefire’s new impact calculator
If not now, when? This is a key newsletter for us and for all the Lytefire users. Click here if you wish to translate this newsletter. ☀️ Lytefire’s impact is mind blowing! The last time we had time to analyze the collected data was in 2016-2017, when we started our first big projects (…)
If not now, when?
If not now, when? Spring is here, even in Finland, and we hope the good energy is giving everyone strength and courage to keep on with the good work! Click here to translate this newsletter. ☀️ New project with UNDP We are very happy to share with you that we are starting a very (…)
If not now, when?
If not now, when? Dear Friends, we hope that everyone is doing as good as possible in these complex times – to say the least. Here are a few solar news to cheer you (and us) up! The newsletter is written only in English now because many mail services integrate translation tools. Click here (…)
Solar Concentration Outperforms Photovoltaic Panels in Cost and Performance, Here is Why
This is indeed something we get asked from time to time. And the answer is yes, solar concentration is cheaper in many contexts. It depends on what you want to do with the energy. Left: A student and I installing a PV system at a school in rural Nepal. Right: Lytefire solar cookers deployed (…)
A generous company
I think I have never been so proud to lead a company as under-performing as ours. Lytefire is a generous bet and one that is increasingly supported by women. And the more I move forward, the more this bet embodied by our small team strengthens my conviction that generous companies have (…)
What’s in your hands? Low-Tech, Mid-Tech or High-Tech?
We want to mitigate climate change, and transform and rebuild societies based on more social justice. All the tech we use should be adapted to the context of their usage, and people’s tools need to be in people’s hands. What we need is long lasting sustainable technologies supporting human (…)
Debunking Open Source in Impact
It’s time to clarify an important point about Open Source. We believe in all the virtues of open source, but because of its limitations, we decided not to embrace that path. We are explaining here our model. The common understanding is that one can open source anything if the know-how is (…)
Energy Savings with Lytefire - Fast Returns or Waste of Money? Calculate Yourself!
Today Lytefire powers several solar bakeries, roasteries, kitchens and even a brewery and even a sauna. Every time this solar concentrating technology is used, it means no electricity, no charcoal and no firewood is burnt. Good for the planet, and good for the users’ wallets. But how good? (…)
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