A few days ago we had this device, a solar dryer, delivered to Buddha Garden. It was designed by a German student (the one in the middle with her back to the camera) and this is a picture of the student with her friend and Rajan setting it all up.
When it arrived I was quite taken by the design which seems to be well thought out. I gather from Vivek, however, that the dryer has taken much longer than expected to get to this stage because she keeps changing her mind about how it should work. I also gather that it has turned out much more expensive than expected which I have found often happens when things are developed like this in Auroville.
We are going to try it out to see how it works and if anyone else wants to try it they are going to have to rent it. We hope this will help people to take care of it better than they might do if they didn't pay anything. We started off with drying some fruit which we are going to keep for a week or two to make sure that it is properly dried out. Getting a machine to measure the moisture is apparently extremely expensive, but this would help us to ensure that everything is dried to the optimum amount.
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