in the Middle of the night 10 years ago was Marius Andresen in its basement with a drill, a small flashlight, a cup, a lid and tape. He made a model of a lamp that should go on the solar.
Marius had had the idea in a few years. He was frustrated that their he had been on to start, made products that often were to the garbage after use.
– I thought of my children, and on the growing environmental problems in the world. In the agency we agreed to use our knowledge to help make the world a little greener and better.
Would make the world a little brighter
the Company’s designers created a prototype of a combined lamp and mobile charger, based on the model Marius made in the basement.
SunBell is a combined lamp and mobile charger that are powered on solar cells.
Photo: Bright
– We wanted to create something exceptional, something that could affect as many as possible.
Their had not the capacity to mass produce light. Marius chose to bet, and started a new fima together with a colleague.
In the company Bright they would concentrate on to further develop and mass produce the kombinderte light and mobilladeren.
They managed eventually to get someone who would invest in the company, and after years of trial and error, they were the first prototypes of the Sunbell ready to be tested.
co-Founder Marius Andresen with lamp SunBell.
Photo: Bright
– People think that there are many with money who will bet on green businesses. But so easy is it not. It comes to be sustainable, ” says Marius.
Hard to succeed
A half a million norwegians are dreaming of becoming entrepreneurs, shows research from analyseselskapet Menon.
The vast majority of those who start for themselves, must give up. In the course of five years, two of the three companies closed down, says msc, Leo Grünfeld.
Only one out of ten realizes gründerdrømmen, and only half succeed.
– Very few ideas are something one can live by. It is especially difficult to get it to them as inventing new technology, ” he says.
A binding moment
When the prototype was ready, went the founders of Northern Kenya. They would demonstrate the light for people without access to electricity.
Around 840 million people in the world live off-grid. They are missing completely access to electricity or get electricity from polluting power units.
One of the Un bærekraftsmål is to ensure access to sustainable energy for all, and replace hazardous fuels with renewable energy.
Solcellelampen that the entrepreneur Marius Andresen and his team, will light up a house in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Photo: Taral Jansen
– We were at a masai family outside Nairobi. They lived in a smoky leirhytte with tiny peep-holes on. A girl sat and did homework in the light of a small, homemade parafinlampe. It was their light.
the Cabin was full of parafinos.
– When we stumbled out of the cabin, we thought that this was a binding moment. This we had to do something with, ” says Marius.
Contract with the united nations
In 2014 was Bright invited by the UN to demonstrate the SunBell in a refugee camp in Kenya.
the united nations is committed to limit greenhouse gas emissions in their refugee camps, where the power supply often comes from diesel-powered aggregates.
– most adults in the camp had a mobile phone, but to get charged it was almost impossible, ” says Marius.
Combination lamp and mobile charger was a success.
Bright got a contract with the united nations, and SunBell-light was a part of nødhjelpspakka as the united nations offer in emergencies and disasters.
the united nations wants to use renewable energy in their refugee camps.
Photo: Thought Leader Global
That Bright won the contract with the united nations in competition with several large companies, made it loose for the founders, and the company grew quickly. It says the managing director of Bright, Selma Kveim.
Now is the combined light and mobilladeren sold over 2.5 million copies, of which first and foremost go to the people who live without access to mains power.
Lights make safe
– the Light makes a big difference. Girls can light up the road when they are walking in the dark and is more secure against assault, and child can read the homework at home in the light from the lamp, ” says Marius Andresen.
– the Un bærekraftsmål is, among other things, to give the girls a safer life, and children education. This is a candle, our with on.
Solcellelampen makes it possible for the children in the flyktningleiren in Kenya to do their homework at home.
Photo: Thougt Leader Global
In a series of reports in the Echo on NRK P2 you can hear about several inventors who work for a better world. The first story is about solcellelampa that light up the refugee camps:
You need javascript to play the sound clip “Inventors of a better world (1:4) A sunlight idea”.
A private life in ruins and a sjekkereplikk. It was the start for Gretel and the Runes of the invention where the stock supermøkk:
You need javascript to play the sound clip “Inventors of a better world (2:4) the Gold of dung”.
Margareth Øverland replace soy with trees, and make good food more climate-friendly:
You need javascript to play the sound clip “Inventors of a better world (3:4) Gran of soy”.
Petter and Tore Plank took up panteautomatene and created the green milliardbedriften Laboratory. But even they went on a USA-bangs:
You need javascript to play the sound clip “Inventors of a better world (4:4) They created the Laboratory”.
