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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. Lick my balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    RTFA


    That is why you use batteries. Do you have any CLUE of the latitude of Bombay? You do NOT need sunlight all the time if you can store the energy, and if you don't get enough energy, add more panels and store it when it ISN'T cloudy. Don't curse at me, and please, please, die in a fire.