Tag: Evaptainers

“People tend to write you off a bit when you look young,” Jeremy reflected. “Likewise, the investment community is generally averse to risk… When you are younger, a more limited track record can be a bit of a handicap. Also, it’s a cliche but building a great company requires having a great network… When you are just starting out, you haven’t forged many of these relationships yet and that makes everything much tougher.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/youth-engagement-racial-equity-and-green-tech-intersect_us_5996ebdfe4b033e0fbdec32c

The way these things work is something like sweating.sweat, water molecules draw heat out of our bodies to go through a phase-change, and evaporate. As that happens we cool down. This machine has water in a tank, and permeable membranes that deliver water to evaporative walls.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/02/evaptainers-decouples-refrigeration-from-electricity-to-help-rural-farms-and-families/

The story of the company, which is now headquartered at MassChallenge as an “alumni in residence,” starts at a class of the MIT Development Lab. The first day, the professor asked for ideas that “would change the life of one billion people.”
https://www.americaninno.com/boston/these-masschallenge-alumni-are-producing-a-portable-fridge-that-runs-on-sun-and-water/

Evaptainers creates “zero energy” refrigeration systems using modular and mobile units to systemically reduce food spoilage in the developing world. “We are very proud to be on the ground in Morocco working with our country partners to bring this technology to market,” says CEO and co-founder Spencer Taylor. “Unlike other alternative refrigeration companies our product requires no electricity and is so lightweight and inexpensive that it allows us to bring a refrigeration solution to populations living on the other side of the electricity divide that have never before had access.”
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/evaptainers-electricity-free-refrigeration.html