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Practical exercise

Install one solar rechargeable bulb in your house

Pakistan loadshedding is back in many cities; rural areas never lost it. A solar rechargeable bulb costs 700 to 2,500 rupees, charges in daylight on a small panel, and gives 4 to 8 hours of light at night with zero electricity bill and zero noise. Today you buy one, install it in the room that suffers most when WAPDA cuts, and prove with a photo that the room is lit during loadshedding.

45 min·practitioner
Mimi the mascot, encouraging you

Now try it

Install one solar rechargeable bulb in your house

Stretch

If the first bulb works well after two weeks, plan a second bulb in the next loadshedding-critical room (kitchen, bathroom, study). Make a simple two row table comparing nightly runtime of bulb 1 versus bulb 2 over a week.

Goes into your portfolio

The receipt of the bulb purchase, a photograph of the bulb installed, a photograph of the room lit during a real loadshedding (with clock visible), and a short note with measured hours of runtime and estimated rupee saving per year.