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CBA for Producing Ice with Solar Energy with the 2nd Prototype

Why Haiti?

  • Poorest country in Northern hemisphere (2,500,000 live in extreme poverty)

  • Current GDP per capita is approximately $1,300. An estimated 80% of people live below the poverty line. (Water.org/country/haiti)

  • Highest child mortality rates

    • 100,000 children under five suffer from acute malnutrition

    • One third of Haitian children and women are anemic

  • New 5-in-1 vaccine (pentavalent vaccine)

    • Projects children from five dangerous diseases

    • Tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, influenza type B, diphtheria

    • Has been administered to 400 million children as of 2013

Cost & Benefit Variables

Costs Variables

  • Manufacturing, shipping, implementation, maintenance.

Benefits Variables:

  • Efficiency of the fridge

    • average hours of sunlight/day, kg of ice produced/day, size of cooler we can support

  • Consumers of perishable goods

    • How many people we can feed, Nutrition → QALY

  • Merchants of food

    • 1 vegetable producer, $ Income/year, QALY

Summary of Costs & Benefits of Our Model
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