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• Daily Mail: Amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student in a potting shed helps poverty-stricken Africans -- Jan. 8, 2009
• NASA: Keeping Cool With Solar-Powered Refrigeration
• TreeHugger: Wayback Machine: Solar Powered Refrigerator (in 1935!) -- July 23, 2007

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• Brooke, Chris. "Amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student in a potting shed helps poverty-stricken Africans." Daily Mail. Jan. 8, 2009.
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1108343/Amazing-solar-powered-fridge-invented-British-student-potting-shed-helps-poverty-stricken-Africans.html
• Flahiff, Daniel. "Student Invents Solar-Powered Fridge for Developing Countries." Inhabit. Jan.12, 2009.
  http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/01/12/solar-powered-fridge-by-emily-cummins/
• McDermott, Matthew. "Solar Powered Refrigerator Could Bring Health and Energy Savings to Rural India." TreeHugger. Oct. 1, 2008.
  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/solar-powered-refrigerator-developed-for-rural-india.php
• Keeping Cool With Solar-Powered Refrigeration. NASA.
  http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2003/er_1.html