In the meantime, there are numerous private companies hoping to develop small scale nuclear fusion reactors.
The challenge is to develop small scale MED units for applications in rural areas.
Beneficial interventions might include flood mitigation measures and projects to balance seasonal water supply, such as developing small scale water storage over a wide area to capture excess runoff (Molden et al. [2014]), maintaining vegetation cover to reduce erosion, and dam construction to provide electricity, water, and/or flood regulation for downstream users.
Other organizations constructed female-friendly toilets for a secondary school in Nduta and developed small-scale reusable pad income generating schemes in Nyaragusu.
Engineers have developed small-scale generation technologies (micro-nuclear power plants, mini-gas turbines, solar panels and the like) that can dramatically shorten the distance from generation to end-use.
A challenge will be to develop smaller scale projects on the local level where participatory planning processes with cross sectoral planning can be implemented.
It's like the industrial revolution now," said Mark Wilson, CEO of Intelligent Land Investments, which is working with more than 200 landowners in Scotland to develop small-scale wind schemes.
Then, get a glimpse of the countryside with Fundación En Vía (Instituto Cultural Oaxaca; Avenida Juarez 909; 52-951-515-2424; envia.org), a local micro-finance nonprofit organization that helps rural women develop small-scale businesses.
Big-name automakers like Honda Motor and Volkswagen have applied their technology to help develop small-scale systems, sometimes known as micro C.H.P. Small systems are gaining traction in Japan after the nuclear disaster last year, which led officials to order that nearly all of the country's reactors be taken offline.
The design guidelines and considerations for improving or developing small-scale tillage implements are presented.
However, limited work has been reported on using such optimization techniques to develop small-scale turbines for organic Rankine cycles.
