Tim Bruening wrote:
>
> Bernie Dwyer wrote:
>
>>Personally, I'm off-grid with 1.6 kilowatts of solar panels and 1100 amp
>>hours of batteries at 450 meters above sea level, about 50km from the
>>coast. I *should* survive food-wise, but I probably wouldn't be able to
>>fire up the home computer very often.
>
>
> I have recently read of a ****table computer being marketed to the 3rd
World
> for use in villages without ready access to electricity. Its batteries
can
> be recharged by pedaling a stationary bike.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1
: OLPC XO-1
:
: The XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop or Children's Machine,
: is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to
: children in developing countries around the world,[1] to provide
: them with access to knowledge, and op****tunities to "explore,
: experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning).[2]
: The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) social
: welfare organization
:
: [...]
: The rugged, low-power computers contain flash memory instead of a
: hard drive and use Linux as their operating system.[7] Mobile ad-hoc
: networking is used to allow many machines to share Internet access
: from one connection.
I think you're referring to this.
Jim Burns
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