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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"In any remote African village, a Cuban doctor can impart medical knowledge to any youth from the village or from the surrounding municipality who has the equivalent of a grade twelve education, using videos and computers energized by a small solar panel;"

Typical global Marxist daydreaming. A "small" solar panel will run a PC that will train a half starved African boy? (with a grade 12 UN style education no less)

Not likely in this universe. This global Marxist daydreamer forgot to add the (very expensive)batteries that several "small" solar panels (each costing 15 years worth of the wages this African boy makes) never mind the cost of large batteries suitible for such a system, which would be a lifetimes wages.

The you would need a refrigerator to store medicines in, lights to read by, air condiioning to keep his patients alive, assuming they manage to survive treatment by a Cuban trained African boy who managed to get into UN style medical school with a UN quality garde 12 education.

Then, if that's not enough, all this "global warming" will cause Africa to be very cloudy and overcast most of the time, making those solar panels useless.

It's doubtfull it would matter anyways, because this "African boy" will probably have been killed or taken as a slave by the Jihadists ravanging the country, which nobody can stop because they took all the nations defence money and trained Cuban doctors with it.

6 posted on 05/22/2007 7:52:09 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
http://www.explan.co.uk/hardware/solo.shtml#pricing

The olpc project is interesting too:

http://www.laptop.org/
10 posted on 05/22/2007 8:28:40 PM PDT by ketsu
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