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Looks like the link has already been changed to a neutral newspaper article. You're quite right, the initial story was stupid. "Peru deploying modern technolo
by Lazare 13y ago
Looks like the link has already been changed to a neutral newspaper article.
You're quite right, the initial story was stupid. "Peru deploying modern technology to electrify remote villages who aren't on the grid!" "Why can't more prosperous countries do this?" Answer: They did...a hundred years ago.
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- D9u 13y agoI live in the USA, in a rural agricultural community, and there is still no electricity on my part of the road. Apparently the funds from the "Rural Electrification Program" were spent elsewhere. We got phone lines in during the 1990's but no power, yet my neighbors right up the road from me have had electricity for years.