Fatou, Anne and I took a taxi to Dakar today to visit the Ministry of Energy. As was suggested by the folks at the University, there was likely to be pre-existing energy audit data for Senegal, on some level, usability questionable. We spoke with a few employees there who were eager to help us, and we loaded up with documents. We still hope to bring on a Senegalese student to help conduct an energy audit in Mékhé in a couple weeks. Marian has been kind enough to offer to teach us SPSS- a statistical program for social sciences- to analyse the data.
We hope that the energy audit will produce a compelling case for the promotion of solar ovens in reducing fuel costs and greenhouse gas emissions.