OLPC will provide computing power to children in poor nations and is powered by a hand cranked dynamo. It has been a big interest of mine and I have joined the few developers that develop for OLPC.
There is a project underway that will allow one to buy one for you and donate one to a poor child, for $399. May be some thing to think about this Christmas time.
The comment!
"The energy sources they really need are distributed generation - photovoltaics, wind, small hydro, biogas, and self-powered products such as this computer. Not western-style centralized power grids run by corporate oligarchies. That is the old-fashioned, polluting, and wasteful way to generate electricity. Distributed generation has taken hold where the legislative climate has been favorable. It has not done so well in others (e.g. US, UK) where big businesses who own the coal mines, large power stations, and grids also seem to own the government. Centralized grids are not the 'free markets' that 'pro-business' politics works them up to be, distributed grids are."
The article "Cheap laptops: the new ethical gift" where the comment was left.
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