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Building a Solar Kiln in the Jordanian Desert

In 1987 I was thirty-four years old and I had just been told by the ministry that our project would not receive funding. We had proposed a solar kiln that could fire ceramics for a village of two hundred families in the eastern desert. The ministry said the sun was free but the plans were expensive.

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Omar F.

Is the workshop still open to visitors? I would drive out from Dubai.

2 months
Yara M.

Yusuf I remember when you built this. I was a young man in Muscat. It made the papers here too.

2 months
Elias W.

This is engineering as it should be taught. Constraints are the design. I will show my team.

2 months
HS

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