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Re: [News] Might the '$100 Linux Laptop' Run Without Batteries or Cranks?

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> OLPC experiments with cow-powered laptops (seriously)
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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 e-mail dated 
>| Oct. 21 and posted to one of the group's discussion lists.   
> `----
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044060
> 

One wonders if this might not be something of a rise?

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