POST 00929E : UPDATE ON SOLAR REFRIGERATOR

POST 00929E : UPDATE ON SOLAR REFRIGERATOR Follow-up on Post 00921E 24 May 2006 ___________________________________________________________ Anil Varshney (mailto:[email protected]) from India share comments about the SolarChill refrigerator. He rightly raises the cost issue. ____________________________________________________________ Dear All, My compliments to Carib Nelson, This is the most wonderful piece of information relating to cold chain. I have following querries : What is the working of the solar chill in situtaion where ambient temperatures are above 40°C? The site does not inform how it functions. What would be the maintance cost, spares and related issues? Such a solar chill refrigerator would be a boom in most developing countries including India not only for the immunization program but also for domestic food chain. The cost in comparison is quite high - local domestic refrigerator CFC-free costs 6-7 000 Rs while solar chill would be 75000/ Rs as per mentioned price, so it will not make economic sense to buy at 10 times more plus costs of spares, repairs and manpower to handle the same, given that accummulated losses due to interrupted electricity over a period of 5 years will be far less than one-time cost of the solar chill. With lower maintenance and spares cost, then this would be viable not only for immunization program but also for domestic use in INDIA and most countries. Solar chill must tie up with large manufacturers and play the domestic use card, (Chill- refrigerate without electricity - the 101st wonder of the world this is a suggested selling line). That is the market where manufacturers get their volumes. Thanks and best wishes, Anil Varshney, New Delhi ______________________________________________________________________________ Visit the TECHNET21 Website at http://www.technet21.org You will find instructions to subscribe, a direct access to archives, links to reference documents and other features. ______________________________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to : mailto:[email protected] Leave the subject area BLANK In the message body, write unsubscribe TECHNET21E ______________________________________________________________________________ The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de coopération internationale en santé et développement, Québec, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________