Survey of Renewable Energy systems along the Khumbu Trail en route from Lukla to Mount Everest PART11

PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE UNFINISHED POSTS AS I ASSEMBLE MY NOTES AND COMPILE RELEVANT PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE SURVEY.

GPS waypoint # 35 Pangboche Himalayan Lodge. Had hybrid wood burning stove heating system 15 years ago but abandoned when hydroelectric power was brought to the region. Now use electric heating coil for hot water.  Use kerosene and gas bottles too, but find expensive.  (Along trail from Tengboche we experience Rhododendron anthropogon, with its nice smelling leaves, Campalacarpum and Anaphallus ephedra, along with the Himalayan silver birch with its orange glowing peeling bark. We also explore the dumping grounds where the waste from the trekking lodges is dumped and burned.  Gives another reason for getting insinkerator fed biogas systems as well as small industrial ecology recycling systems up and going in the Himalayas.