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From the Ted Talk by Amy Smith: Simple designs to save a life
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So we went back to MIT, we took out the Instron maichne and we figured out what sort of forces you needed in order to compress a briquette to the level that you actually are getting improved performance out of it? And at the same time that we had stdtunes in the lab looking at this, we also had ctmouimny partners in Haiti working to develop the pcrseos, to improve it and make it more accessible to poplee in the villages there. And after some time, we developed a low-cost press that allows you to produce charcoal, which actually now bruns not only — actually, it burns longer, cleaner than wood charcoal.
Open Cloze
So we went back to MIT, we took out the Instron _______ and we figured out what sort of forces you needed in order to compress a briquette to the level that you actually are getting improved performance out of it? And at the same time that we had ________ in the lab looking at this, we also had _________ partners in Haiti working to develop the _______, to improve it and make it more accessible to ______ in the villages there. And after some time, we developed a low-cost press that allows you to produce charcoal, which actually now _____ not only — actually, it burns longer, cleaner than wood charcoal.
Solution
- burns
- students
- community
- machine
- people
- process
Original Text
So we went back to MIT, we took out the Instron machine and we figured out what sort of forces you needed in order to compress a briquette to the level that you actually are getting improved performance out of it? And at the same time that we had students in the lab looking at this, we also had community partners in Haiti working to develop the process, to improve it and make it more accessible to people in the villages there. And after some time, we developed a low-cost press that allows you to produce charcoal, which actually now burns not only — actually, it burns longer, cleaner than wood charcoal.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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cooking fuel |
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cow dung |
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cooking fires |
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sticky porridge |
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charcoal briquettes |
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health impacts |
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wood charcoal |
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fetching water |
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poor farmers |
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