The International Financing Corporation launched Lighting Pakistan this week. The scheme, which is supported by UKAID and Australia AID, will look to raise awareness among households about alternative fuel sources, including those from off-grid solar. Business Recorder reported that Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar attended the launch ceremony yesterday, where he announced that the national economy had stabilized. Mr Dar referred to the IFC's 'Pakistan Lighting Consumer Perceptions Study', which revealed that $2.2 billion was being spent in Pakistan each year on off-grid lighting products. Pakistan's solar economy is on the rise, as this piece on The News elucidates. A team from Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented a solar water system that desalinates water in order to make it drinkable. The system relies on electrodialysis to remove salt and make water drinkable, according to reports that ran in The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. The system came first at the Securing Water for Food Challenge held in New Mexico, winning the Desal Prize in addition to a $140,000 grant. The system is ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...