That should be great for campers, but where the K-Light really "shines" (so to speak) is in places like Africa, where villagers without electricity often use makeshift kerosene lanterns for light at night.

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Campaigners lit hundreds of lanterns at the "Night of Light" event on Cannock Road in Stafford on Saturday.

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It was this broad avenue, hung with bobbing white lanterns, alight with girls fluent in yukata (a light kimono) and little boys carrying lit-up white globes, that greeted me my first night in Kyoto, in 1984, on a three-day visit through Japan with my mother, en route to India.

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Light Energy that produces and sells solar-powered LED lanterns to replace kerosene lights in the emerging market villages.

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Modeled after Asian lanterns, Celeste is a compact and highly portable table light (sconce and ceiling versions are also available).

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Race Point Light on Cape Cod, Massachusetts doesn't have electricity-just gas lanterns-and the generator runs for barely two hours a day.

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