Micro Scale Solar Still Pilot Project in Cape Verde

This is a video about a solar still Nick and I built with our students at our technical school.

The first day it distilled 1.75L of water.

With the prototype finished, we're redesigning the model trying to increase the output and integrating the solar still into four other classes at our high school.

This project aims to:
1) Educate students on solar distillation
2) Teach students necessary skills to accomplish a construction project
3) Convey the potential of solar distillation as a freshwater solution for Cape Verde.

If the output is increased to make the project cost-effective, micro-scale solar stills could provide an economic solution to the nationwide drought problem in CV.

We will see.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cape
• verde
• solar
• still
• sustainability
• water

[CrowMonster1986]

This is a great project from wich many countries could benefit. A simple and extremley cheap desalinization plant, it could change Africa!

[zinfand7]

excellent

[JUSTINIANOTUBE1]

This is a good project, and I hope to see it spread throughout the Islands of Cape Verde, especially now that Cape Verde is developing fast and there is a big real estate, construction and population boom, projects like this will help people in Cape Verde not loose their most precious and scarce resource: water.

[fgareeboo]

Thx for posting. Instead of painting the inside white, have you tried covering with aluminium foil ?

Also, would adding 'wings of aluminium foil' around the outside help collect more sunshine into the still ?

[617212305312213]

technology is not accessible on the island because it dosen't exist, that why they import, common be rational

[ecofriend93]

Necessity is the mother of all creation. Rather than importing technology from outside, engaging the locals to come up with a solution will provide a cost-effective and efficient answer to any problem.