ポータブルなランタン, グラス一杯の水にスプーン２杯の塩を加えて灯す照明
Just add water and salt!
Add 1 glass of water and 2 tablespoons of salt, use the lamp for 8 hours.
「えっ、“グラス一杯の水にスプーン２杯の塩を加えて灯す照明”って何？」
これはフィリピンの企業、SALtが取り組んでいるプロジェクトで、塩水から電気を発生させるガルバニ電池（理科の授業で聞いたことがあるかも？）の原理を使ったポータブルなランタン。
というのも、フィリピン国内にはある7000以上の島々の大半ではまだ電気が整備されておらず、ろうそくやオイルなどを使用するために起る火災事故も多発しているとのこと。また地域によっては、明かりを灯す燃料を得るために往復50キロ以上を歩くような暮らしを続けている人々も。このような厳しい生活環境においても海水、または塩と水は入手しやすいために比較的容易に利用ができ、災害時などにおいても役立つという素敵な照明のプロジェクトです。
昔からあった技術に新しいアイデアを化学反応させて、今の時代に求められる製品として復活させているところも感心させられます。そして、時と場合によって必要となる“明かり”はさまざま。明るさや点灯時間が限られていても、視点を変えれば新たに輝きだす“明かり”もあるのです！
いつも興味深いニュースを知らせてくれるロンドンの友人から、このニュースは届きました。どうもありがとう。
SALt, Sustainable and cost effective ecologically lamp from Philippines.
SALtランプは毎日約8時間の点灯で、6ヶ月間使えるそうです。
Reach 590 Lamps and Donate to 590 Families in Carles, Iloilo.
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SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE LIGHTING
Aisa A. Mijeno / Co-Founder & CEO
Few of the common things we noticed from marginalized island communities are their inability to access electricity, the use of fuel-based lamps and the abundance of seawater. These encouraged us to develop a lighting system that runs on the very basic items seen on every household — water and salt, or for the islanders — seawater.
There are over 7,000 island in the Philippines, most of these islands do not have access to electricity, and kerosene had become a commodity to households in unelectrified marginalized communities. Over the past few years of studying such living conditions, developing the correlation between geographical location, status quo and the use of fuel-based lamps, we have come up with a conclusion that the practice of using such light source had been passed on from generations thus, these people never deviated from using fuel-based lamps. The method of refilling kerosene in lamps (according to a native, southwest of the Philippines) brings about emotional security despite its many cases of fire accidents caused by tipped over lamps and candles. About 16 million Filipinos could possibly suffer the consequences therefore making local governments and even private sectors more concerned, extending their efforts to replace such customs. And to contribute to these efforts, we have developed a more cost-effective, safe and environmentally friendly lamp that runs on saltwater. Our mission is to decrease the light inequality in the Philippines and the world which has about 1.4 Billion people without access to electricity.
Texts from Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2015 (AEA 2015)
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