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Re:Making a Three-Stone Hearth as Efficient as an Improved C... by unchocked on Monday December 21, 2015 @04:21PM (#10773611)
Parent is pretty clearly referring to using solar photovoltaic panels to generate electricity to operate an induction cooktop. Pretty sure parent grossly lacks an understanding of what global poverty is.

I knew a guy who worked in the Peace Corps in Lesotho, trying to get people to use reflective stoves. His experience is that people didn't want to use them because (a) they liked traditional cooking [who doesn't?] and (b) insofar as they had aspirations, it was to buy a propane bottle and a burner, like the middle class people in their area.

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Re:Making a Three-Stone Hearth as Efficient as an Improved C... by gozur88 on Monday December 21, 2015 @08:27PM (#10775017)
A friend of mine was in Burkina Faso for some NGO (might have been Peace Corps). Originally they tried a PV setup for some of the more rural villages. Every time they'd come back to ask how things were working the panels had been stolen and sold off. Eventually they gave up on PV altogether.
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