Here’s a bit of holiday cheer–a video about a community solar network that is bringing electricity and WiFi to an off-grid rural village in Bangladesh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nMo7q_5hyg&feature=youtu.be
The question raised by this bottom-up approach is whether enough people can be helped to make a difference. The video says the sponsor, ME SOLshare, Ltd., plans to bring installations like this one to 1 million people by 2021. (The current population of Bangladesh is 170 million.)
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