well..i assume these computers are meant to be used by people (households); not villages 50% of the households still have no power Also, if you've ever stayed in any village in India you would be cautious about claiming that power supply in villages actually works Even in a city like Bangalore a company cannot survive without a backup power supply
"...87% of villages are electrified, while only 42-44% of rural households are electrified."
- Ministry of Power, Government of India, Discussion Paper on Rural Electrification Policies (Pursuant to Sections 4&5 of the Electricity Act 2003).
This paper has more details
How on earth are these laptops, supposedly meant for the really poor rural folks, going to be powered?
There is no electricity in 50% of the villages, and just enough to power a single light bulb in 30% Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power perhaps?
Essentially a living organism is like a machine; and machines come with a certain lifespan. You could potentially reduce 'usage' and increase life I would think there is only a certain amount of resources that an organism can consume before it wears out. Isn't the gene that the article refers to a regulator that moderates the efficiency with which resources are utilized to maintain life? So we might be able to doctor the gene to process chocolate with greater efficiency But for some reason I cannot intuit that we are going to be able to consume unlimited quantities of food and not die from it.
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well..i assume these computers are meant to be used by people (households); not villages
50% of the households still have no power
Also, if you've ever stayed in any village in India you would be cautious about claiming that power supply in villages actually works
Even in a city like Bangalore a company cannot survive without a backup power supply
"...87% of villages are electrified, while only 42-44% of rural households are electrified."
- Ministry of Power, Government of India, Discussion Paper on Rural Electrification Policies (Pursuant to Sections 4&5 of the Electricity Act 2003).
This paper has more details
How on earth are these laptops, supposedly meant for the really poor rural folks, going to be powered?
There is no electricity in 50% of the villages, and just enough to power a single light bulb in 30%
Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power perhaps?
Essentially a living organism is like a machine; and machines come with a certain lifespan.
You could potentially reduce 'usage' and increase life
I would think there is only a certain amount of resources that an organism can consume before it wears out.
Isn't the gene that the article refers to a regulator that moderates the efficiency with which resources are utilized to maintain life?
So we might be able to doctor the gene to process chocolate with greater efficiency
But for some reason I cannot intuit that we are going to be able to consume unlimited quantities of food and not die from it.
will we humans learn that restricting something without any chance of respite only makes it worse?