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Which is why they're planning to have the battery/LED module, which accounts for most of the cost, manufactured inside the country rather than imported, which s
by brazzy 12y ago
Which is why they're planning to have the battery/LED module, which accounts for most of the cost, manufactured inside the country rather than imported, which should make it much cheaper.
- cbd1984 12y agoAnd what are labor standards like there? What are waste disposal standards like there? Is this one of those projects that, twenty years from now, we'll be reading about someone taking heroic efforts to solve the problems of?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoThere are many things to be worried about in the world, however I do not think we need to be overly fearful of the concept of producing a portable lamp close to the location where we want to then use it.
- cbd1984 12y ago> There are many things to be worried about in the world, however I do not think we need to be overly fearful of the concept of producing a portable lamp close to the location where we want to then use it. It's precisely the kind of thing we need to be fearful of if spreading manufacturing becomes a trend but spreading environmental and labor standards does not.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoMali's economy is mostly cash-crop agriculture and mining. Increasing tech manufacture in the economy is exceedingly likely to be less damaging and have better working conditions than what is currently available.
- kalleboo 12y agoProbably pretty much the same as China or Indonesia or wherever it's being made at the lowest cost right now?