Solar Industry Helps Boy With Laser Create Cuddly Creatures For Benefit Of Society

Solar + Laser = Teddies for sick kids

Bumble is a boy with a mission.

He uses an array of tools including a “laser” to produce animal like creations that bring joy to sick children.

The furry friends he forms are named “teddy bears” after an American President who is famous for conserving animals, shooting animals, and being shot.

Bumble is on a crusade¹ to provide gifts to children in hospital.  While nobody knows just how many bears he has made and given away, six months ago it was around seven or eight hundred.  By now he’s probably cleared the 1,000 mark.

Bumble, or Campbell Remess if you want to be traditional and use the names he was given when he was born, can now make a bear in about an hour.  Including the time and effort he put into getting that fast means he has spent well over 1,000 hours bringing happiness to other people.  When I was Bumble’s age the only thing I had spent 1,000 hours doing was making trouble².

If you want to help Bumble you can go to his site, Project 365, and make a donation.

Australia’s Solar Industry Gives Bumble A Hand

In order to help Bumble and provide energy for his laser fabric cutter and his sewing machine, members of Australia’s solar industry banded together to donate a completely installed 5.2 kilowatt rooftop solar system with 20 Suntech Power 260 watt solar panels and 20 Enphase S270 microinverters.

The companies that contributed to this selfless act of charity were Enphase Energy, Suntech, Home Efficiency Group, Platinum Edge Electricals, Leeson Group, and Universe Solar.  Donations from other members of the solar industry went towards funding Bumble’s Project 365.

“Bumble” Campbell Remess. An Australian inspiration. Pictured with five cuddly critters – and some of his bears.

This Donation Helps Everybody

The donated solar system means Bumble now has plenty of power for sewing sweet ursines to bring solace to the sick.  But Australia’s solar industry hasn’t just helped Bumble and the children he makes bears for.  And they haven’t just helped his parents, which is important because his father is fighting cancer.  They have quite literally helped everyone in the world.

Bumble lives in Hobart, so when the sun is up the donated solar system produces power that will either reduce the amount of coal generated electricity Tasmania imports from Victoria or conserve water levels in Tasmania’s hydroelectric dams.  Any surplus hydroelectric power Tasmania produces is exported to Victoria, which has one of the dirtiest electricity grids in the world.

This means Bumble’s new solar system will directly contribute to reducing the amount of coal burned in Victoria.  This will reduce health costs from coal pollution and decrease the number of children who end up in hospital in that state.

In addition, by reducing the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere, it makes all of us a little bit safer from the effects of climate change.  While Australians are definitely at risk from exacerbated heatwaves, bushfires, and extreme weather events, those most at risk of losing their lives due to climate change are in poorer nations and this donation by Australia’s solar industry helps them.