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Posted by: daducha 5 months, 3 weeks ago

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A young inventor is hoping to tap the unbounded energy of children in a playground to power schools in Africa.

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protoham5 months, 2 weeks ago

Cool idea, but after he goes through the calculation he will find it will take much more than he expects to light up a class room. Also a child's energy is not free.
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RichFatCat5 months, 2 weeks ago

Interesting proposal. Might work with those who are not already starving to death or crippled by disease. Millions of children will die of measles this year in Africa for lack of an innoculation that costs a little over a dollar.
Makes one wonder.
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  Teech5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Sure does. Makes one wonder how much more useful all that money getting blown away, stolen, and wasted in Iraq could be if used to relieve human misery.
  Naw, no profit for Bush and Cheney in that nonsense.
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