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A team of four people designed and implemented a solar wheelbarrow to help rural communities in Nigeria.
See details on the link below:

https://www.renewableinstitute.org/solar-wheelbarrows-nigeria/

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Felix Okene
QA/QC Engineer
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Read the article. OMG! I text searched the whole article for the word, "motor". 0/0.

What about the motor that is driving the wheel barrel? Unless I missed it, not a single word or drawing reference was mentioned about it. Also I would have put the battery under the wheel barrel as close to the front wheel as possible to reduce lift load on the hauler. Any weight back at the handles has to be maximally "taken on" by the lifter. This should be obvious because it is the very principal that makes a wheel barrel functional. 

What am I missing here?????

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william fitch
Owner
www.WeAreSolar.com
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Whatever you're missing is simply missing – a photo!  The "Discussion of Results" and the "Conclusion" make no mention of this thing ever having been built or used. They found a photo of an empty wheelbarrow for the headline, and made a drawing that gives no clue how to assemble it.

The Abstract calls it a "a solar-mechanical energy-generating wheelbarrow system" which seems to imply that it helps to propel the wheelbarrow, but is that's not in the plan. Fig. 4 design flowchart has little relation to this project. There is nothing original about the power system. There are lots of portable systems like this that are commercially available, neatly and safely packaged, that can be carried from place to place ... even on a wheelbarrow.

If the Renewable Energy Institute is a world authority as they claim, why do they publishing such unfinished business with no editorial judgement?

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Windy Dankoff
Author, Solar Water Pumping Specialist

Very complete explanation. Micro finance would be a good solution for payments.

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Wyldon Fishman
Bronx NY
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