Feedback on my recent trials has left me a tad disheartened about off grid XO-1 charging, & I wonder if you fine developer folk can help enlighten me. Just WHAT is presently being used in all these issued XO regions where schools can't even stretch to a light,rest-rooms or running water????
There are those who say $$$($)($) of centralized solar PV thrown at this problem by donors may ease the pain,and some (myself included) favour personal PVs, while others indicate 2010s glorious XO-2 will run "on the smell of an oily electron". If the latter IS indeed so, then why bother? My concern relates RIGHT NOW to XO rollouts in ultra cash strapped New Guinea & the Solomon Islands, since visions of white (ah- green?) elephants tossed into a jungle school cupboard are arising. Nigeria's 2007 Galadima school experiences have been mentioned by the cynical => http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/nigeria/olpc_nigeria_one_year_later.html . But wait -apparently some of the many churches in these Pacific regions have budgets that stretch to (evening) generators! Can't you just see the kids with flat battery XOs waiting around after school for this to kick in! Ah-of course secular education wouldn't be threatened with "a charge for a prayer" obligation would it? I'm so confused that my XO enthusiasm is under scrutiny... Stan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stan. SWAN - Educator/writer/consultant (ICT-Electronics-Sustainable Energy) EMAIL: => [EMAIL PROTECTED] & (Work) => [EMAIL PROTECTED] CELL: (64)-021-672-958 HOME: (64)-(4)-562-7494 GST Reg: 36-921-021 POSTAL: 24 Tuatoru St, Eastbourne-L.H., Wellington 5013, NEW ZEALAND. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel