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Ice age: Off-grid ways to turn down rising heat for the poor

A desire to help rural India’s dairy farmers who do not have access to electricity led New Delhi-based New Leaf Dynamic Technologies to come up with a refrigerator powered by farm waste, abundantly available in the countryside.

Now the company has won a grant to use the same technology to design an ice-maker, which can produce 1,000 kg a day.

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