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English: Sgt. Nathaniel Taylor, 161st Field Artillery, Kansas Army National Guard, cleans up one of the six Hawker HMMWV batteries that store electricity produced by a solar shade at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.

Photo by Rich Bartell, U.S. Army Africa Public Affairs

Photovoltaic cells located on the shade above Taylor collect energy from the sun and transfer it to a series of six batteries. The shade has withstood wind and blast-furnace heat during a year-long limited military user assessment and continues to produce two kilowatts of power daily.

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Author U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa
Camera location11° 32′ 10.36″ N, 43° 09′ 46.21″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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