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Electricity-free refrigeration for rural India

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Suparna Gangal Gujarat | Akanksha Saxena
August 30, 2022

An inventor from the Indian state of Gujarat has come up with a refrigerator made of clay that is highly efficient and eco-friendly — and easy on the wallet.

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