PV in India [RE-wrenches]

[john at gosolar.co.nz]

Hi Joel and all,

Its doubtful that anyone is doing something to help out those people - its about 2 billion people that don't have access to electricity (re: genisis site).

Perhaps BP Solar could divert some of its manufacture towards helping them instead of their own station canopies - the advertising and P.R. kudos would benefit them greatly.

Or do we have a 'solar missionary' in the group......?

        just my 2 cents,                John V

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joeldavidson at earthlink.net wrote:

> Hello Ray,
> Now I'm at the Singapore airport checking my mail. A lot of people got their first taste of/for PV in the Peace Corp overseas. I was a Vista Volunteer in Madison County, Arkansas (second poorest county in the second poorest state in the U.S.) when I put in my first little PV system. The Arkansas Ozarks are Fat City compared to some of the villages I visited. Most Americans could afford to give a 10W or 20W module for home lighting to someone in need. Who is organizing PV aid to people in developing countries?
> Best regards,
> Joel Davidson
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Ray Walters remotech at taosnm.com
> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:09:46 -0600
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: PV in India [RE-wrenches]
>
> I have always said that the people who need PV the most are the ones who
> can least afford it. Now I am more than ever convinced that this is true.
>
> >Best regards,
> >Joel Davidson
> >
>  I agree absolutely.
> I went in to solar in the Peace corp to help the less fortunate, but there
> are plenty of people right here in New Mexico that can't afford  some
> sorely needed PV. Unfortunately to support my family, I have had to
> concentrate on the high end market lately. I still have some used PV and
> batteries that I move at cost, but going out to install it anymore....it
> just doesn't work out.
>
> Get grant funding to cover our costs and I'd be happy to set people up with
> sensible little systems anywhere or do overseas training seminars. Just a
> fraction of the cost of some of the military ordinance being dropped daily
> could buy a lot of PV and make us some friends in the rest of the world again.
> But the money never goes where you want it to go or does what you want it
> to do: the pump paid with UNICEF funds thats watering a sheik's private
> garden, the last vestiges of an indigenous culture lost to PV powered TV
> and internet.
> The ironies of trying to help are many, but I think solar is still the answer.
> I have struggled to help, seen solar fail as well as succeed, felt guilty
> for making a living from my work and now I'm over it all: I'm going to do
> solar because I like it. Because its better than making A-bombs, because
> it's ...... what I do. And if sometimes we can help those that need it the
> most: Well maybe we can die a little happier.
>
> Sincerely
> SolarRay
>
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