FUN FACT

Adding salt on pineapples makes it sweeter.  The salt reacts with the acids of the fruit, thus converting into a neutral compound and losing the sour taste.  Because of this, the pineapple then becomes sweeter.

Financing innovative technology solutions to power Africa

New off-grid energy solutions hold the potential to provide much of Africa’s currently marginalised rural population with access to affordable electricity. To date, however, funding off-grid solutions on a sufficiently large scale has inhibited the potential of these solutions to transform Africa’s rural economy. In Kenya, approximately 50% of the population has access to electricity.…