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Robert Van Buskirk

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I am an early-retired Harvard Ph.D Physicist and Clean Energy Policy Analyst and charity entrepreneur. I have been organizing and experimenting with clean energy projects in Africa for 30 years. Currently, I am lead organizer of a social venture that consists of a small US non-profit and a local Malawian for-profit partner.

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject #4 - Gen­eral In­ter­ven­tion Refine­ment and Cost-Effec­tive­ness (CE) Anal­y­sis of So­lar Elec­tric Cook­ing Sys­tems: Fi­nal Anal­y­sis and Jus­tifi­ca­tion of Intervention

Robert Van Buskirk20 Jan 2024 5:46 UTC
10 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject 2: Small so­lar cars for non-emer­gency health ser­vices ac­cess — Pre­limi­nary cost effec­tive­ness analysis

Robert Van Buskirk24 Dec 2023 17:06 UTC
13 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Marginal Fund­ing Week, So­lar pumps in Malawi: Creat­ing ~$20 of in­come per $1 of dona­tion for ~$1/​cap­ita/​year beneficiaries

Robert Van Buskirk20 Nov 2023 15:59 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

A sim­plified cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­ma­tion method­ol­ogy for use in So­lar4Africa’s Fall-23 stu­dent projects

Robert Van Buskirk1 Nov 2023 21:02 UTC
12 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

So­lar4Africa launches six Fall-23 stu­dent pro­jects in part­ner­ship with EA at UC Berkeley

Robert Van Buskirk24 Oct 2023 4:18 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A Scheme for us­ing Wor­ldCoin to provide elec­tric­ity & smart phone ac­cess in ru­ral Malawi, Africa

Robert Van Buskirk31 Jul 2023 19:22 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readEA link