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OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the moove-over-solar-power dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) is toying with a novel source of power for its low-cost XO laptops: cows. "We plan to drive a dynamo (taken from an old Fiat) through a system of belts and pulleys using cows/cattle," wrote OLPC's Arjun Sarwal, in an October 21 e-mail posted to one of the group's discussion lists. Sarwal and others are now finalizing the design of the cow-powered generator."

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  1. vegan / vegetarian suitability by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this going to make the OLPC unsuitable for vegans?

    Come to think of it, seeing as plastic is made from oil, which was made from animals that died a long time ago, it's already not suitable for vegetarians.

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