{"id":19196,"date":"2011-02-17T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=19196"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:08:53","slug":"calsolagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/calsolagua\/","title":{"rendered":"Heating Homes &#038; Cutting Costs For Customers At The Bottom of the Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27427322\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>On an otherwise reasonable evening, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, for the culmination of the 2011\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a>. They came to see <a href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/category\/program\/institute\/2011_institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">27 ventures<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0present their solutions to some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Alissa Johnson, Co-Founder of CalSolAgua, shares how her venture is bringing\u00a0heated water solutions to developing countries while cutting customers&#8217; monthly electricity bills by a third.<\/p>\n<p>CalSolAgua (CSA) designed a simple, yet patentable, low cost solar water heating system capable of reducing energy costs and carbon emissions for households in developing countries. Through detailed design work and four generations of prototyping, our team developed a solar water heater that can retail for one-third of the price of competing water tank heaters and less than one-eighth the cost of existing solar water heaters. Retailing at $100 at full production, our product can reach 120 million middle class households globally. 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