With Portable Solar, Nomadic Herders See The Light | Earthtechling: "A ger, if you didn’t know, is the traditional tent home for Mongolia’s nomadic peoples, who roam widely– packing up and bringing their home with them as they move – over a hard landscape to find pasture for livestock.
Way back in 2000, the government of Mongolia recognized solar as uniquely appropriate for bringing electricity to this rural population. Not only is Mongolia’s climate right for solar – long cold winters, yes, but more than 250 days of sunshine a year, too – but solar power systems can be broken down, moved and reinstalled easily, giving the herders the benefits of electricity without forcing a radical change in their traditional way of life."
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