{"id":13838,"date":"2011-11-16T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13838"},"modified":"2011-11-16T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:00:38","slug":"solar-power-system-rotator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/solar-power-system-rotator\/","title":{"rendered":"A 19-Year-Old&#039;s Solar Power Rotator System Wins Social Entrepreneurship Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"19-Year-Old Solar Panel Maker\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsjUyRGeNlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunsaluter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roseicollis Technologies<\/a>, you&#8217;re not alone: the start-up company is still working on its website. But websites be damned&#8230; 19-year-old founder Eden Full has been hard at work on a technology for bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/11\/3-ways-to-go-solar\/\">solar power<\/a> to remote parts of the globe, and she&#8217;s catching attention from some big social entrepreneurship competitions. Earlier this Fall, her Sun Saluter solar panel rotator concept won <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/09\/22\/startups-for-good-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable&#8217;s Startups for Good Challenge<\/a>; today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kymmcnicholas\/2011\/11\/15\/19-year-old-vows-to-disrupt-solar-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes&#8217; Kym McNicolas<\/a> noted that Full has also won the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ashokayouthcompetition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Staples\/Ashoka 5th Annual Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, what makes this technology prize-worthy? In short, the Sun Saluter&#8217;s ability to not only capture more sun (which any rotator can do), but to do so without expending any of the valuable electricity generated: according to Mashable, the rotator moves &#8220;through a series of inexpensive metal coils that expand and contract based on a series of outside factors.&#8221; The technology isn&#8217;t just lab tested, but has been at work in two villages in Kenya that have never had access to electricity before.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above for a bit more insight into Eden herself (she&#8217;s pretty impressive), and let us know what you think of this idea&#8230; yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/tag\/appropriate-technology\/\">appropriate technology<\/a> that could support the developing world without putting them in competition for expendable resources?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Full&#8217;s Sun Saluter solar panel rotator isn&#8217;t just bringing electricity to remote 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