Lucy Carpenter

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Discovery · The Life Scientific: Lucy Carpenter · 11 May 2026 podcast

So we sort of essentially built the lab in the UK and shipped it out.

Plug and play, almost.

The project got off the ground relatively quickly, again, thanks to the support of the Cape Verdean colleagues.

But the main problem with any site like that, very remote, are power cuts.

There were constant power cuts.

We put in a backup generator.

We had to put in a backup generator to the backup generator.

That was a really key thing.

And it's, you know, salt, sunlight, everything rusted.

We needed very regular painting and very regular protection.

And the dust that came down, we had to change our manifolds quite regularly.

So it is a harsh environment.

But we're really lucky that the technical officer that we employed at the time, a Cape Verdean local, he's still there.

So 20 years later, he's still there and he's been absolutely brilliant at maintaining that site.

Yes, it brought a huge amount of rain, flooded the city.

It was actually declared a national emergency by Cape Verde.

We got off reasonably lightly.

The road was destroyed to the site and there's still a massive hole in that road.

So getting there is not easy.

We were back up and running in about two months, I would say.

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