GravityLight is a project out of the United Kingdom that seeks to bring clean, free energy to African households. Their goal is to make kerosene lamps obsolete and help homes become safer. If big corporations like LG and Phillips invested in this kind of project, Africa would be powered by free energy in mere months.
LG and Phillips: Is Clean Energy a Good Investment?
Providing people with cheaper alternatives to light up their homes is probably not completely profitable. As corporations, companies like LG and Phillips must be guaranteed a profit from whatever their investment. But if they were to get involved in projects like GravityLight, not only could there be a lot of positive outturns, but it could help develop technology that can be profitable. GravityLight, for example, found a way to make light from the lift of a weight. While it is not as cheap as a lightbulb, it’s great technology that is profitable.
The Whole World Needs Enlightenment to Survive
GravityLight gives users instant light without the need for sun power or batteries. This is the kind of technology that should be widespread against all nations. The current iteration of the GravityLight features a backup battery in case there is nothing to lift that produces light even while charging.
1 in 5 people do not have electricity in this day and age. They rely on other forms of light, including hazardous kerosene lamps. Kerosene makes up 3% of total CO2 emissions on our planet. The team behind GravityLight wants to make them obsolete, starting in Kenya.
GravityLight is Bringing Instant Light and Opportunity
The team behind this gadget is bringing more than brightness to the region: it’s bringing jobs. The campaign’s ultimate goal is to have an assembly line in Kenya to make the GravityLight. This gives Kenyan people the chance to explore this technology.
Africa is no stranger to fast growth, either. Actually, 6 of the fastest growing economies in 2015 come from African countries. The possibilities for taking this kind of technology there to fuse with their own are great.
The East African region has a growing manufacturing industry that can be developed with the aid of big corporations. The scope and heights that technology could reach would be a lot greater if corporations across the globe joined hands with more off-grid parts of the world. If LG alone joined hands with teams like GravityLight, it could kickstart a lot of great change for the future. But then again, corporate will be corporate.
