OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops 189
An anonymous reader writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) is toying with a novel source of power for its low-cost XO laptops: cows.
"We plan to drive a dynamo (taken from an old Fiat) through a system of belts and pulleys using cows/cattle," wrote OLPC's Arjun Sarwal, in an October 21 e-mail posted to one of the group's discussion lists.
Sarwal and others are now finalizing the design of the cow-powered generator."
Cows don't walk much (Score:4, Insightful)
disappointed (Score:5, Insightful)
Wow...Second world nations? (Score:4, Insightful)
Poor people using such animals tend to have a lot more common sense than we do. This is absolutely preposterous.