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March 2010 revisit to Malawi

The photographs are from the test Energee-Saw installed at a rural school in Dowa District.
Please contact info@playmadeenergy.com for permission to publish images.

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First pilot Energee-Saw 2008 footage online

Panasonic Eco-ideas have featured footage of the 2008 Energee-Saw installation as part of a number of eco-friendly ideas – ranging from weird and wacky to genuinely inspiring.
http://eco-ideas.net/story/id/5/
The description seems to have been lost in translation a little, when being sent over to Japan. To clarify, this footage is from the first installation in 2008 which [...]

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Human Power Station!

A fascinating BBC programme showing how much human pedal power it takes to power a house for a day. Everyone should watch this to understand which appliances require the most electricity and the importance of cutting back where we can.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p8469

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Solar Host

The recently launched PlayMade Learning site is powered by Solar Host. It’s a company founded by UK entrepreneur Tom Williamson and provides website hosting using 100% solar power. I’ve been really impressed with the features and value of the hosting package and love the company tagline, “Web hosting that doesn’t cost the earth.”

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Enterprise UK Ambassador

Formerly a ‘Make Your Mark’ Ambassador, I am now an Ambassador for Enterprise UK, the national campaign to give people in the UK the confidence, skills and ambition to be enterprising – to have ideas and make them happen. www.enterpriseuk.org

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A short introduction…

Hi
Welcome to the PlayMade Blog. By word of introduction, I’m Daniel Sheridan. I setup PlayMade Energy in May 2008 to take the simple concept of an electricity generating see-saw for school children into production. Since then it has been quite a journey!
This ambitious project has to date involved award wins, European grant funding, consultancy projects, [...]

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