[OLPC India] cow power

[Moz]

Dear Arjun

Thanks for your mail. I do understand that you are all swamped with 
work related to the OLPC spread etc and are unable to follow up on 
this project. I live  and work in a wildlife sanctuary, make and 
install wind electric generators, solar photovoltaic systems and self 
tracking parabolic solar thermal cookers. I have worked all my life 
as a volunteer. My focus has always been on helping the tribal people 
I have lived with for the past 17 years. I would have been happy to 
share the knowledge I have gained in my work with pedal power 
generators, axial flux generators, solar photovoltaic energy to 
charge the XOs in remote areas, because these are the kinds of things 
I do at home and in my work. My home runs on solar and wind energy 
for the past 8 years, including a laptop and a dot-matrix printer.

Overseeing the implementation of cow-power is a bigger call which I 
will have to discuss with my team and perhaps I have to talk to you 
and the OLPC team in person to discuss what that entails, the time 
committment and so on. Where are you based?

Regards

Moz

At 10/08/08 03:46 PM, Arjun Sarwal wrote:
>Moz,
>
>I was a volunteer at the India pilot project.
>
>While I, with great support from the team at Mumbai was able to design
>the complete thing, due to time constraints I was only able to oversee
>half of the implementation.
>
>Because the OLPC India team at Mumbai is a small team and is currently
>swamped with work regarding the spread of the OLPC program in India,
>they dont have time or manpower to oversee this project , though they
>are tremendously supportive of the project.
>
>If you or someone else close to Mumbai  , could volunteer to complete
>it, it'd really be great.  I hear people in Peru and other deployments
>have also started to look towards Cow Power as a possible power
>solution to charge the XOs. If this one prototype can be successfully
>implemented at Khairat, it could mean a lot of positive things for
>power solutions in general for XO deployments all around the world.
>
>
>Thank you for your interest and support.
>
>Regards,
>Arjun