On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:04:04 Martin wrote: [snip] Hello Martin, It's an interesting project - and I'm sure will be invaluable to many people. Continuing the aside however, what about permaculture projects to _grow_ suitable fuel oil? These will persist long after the NimH batteries have exceeded their cycle duty. Of course without appropriate mechanical technology (lamps), this does involve a fire hazard. For those following the thread who have reservations about donating PCs to five sixths of the world's population, many of the arguments from either side can be seen in the olpc fora; but you might also be interested in other (appropriate) technological work carried out by aptivate.org - with their focus on access to *information* V interesting - although their technology comparisons wilfully ignore bio-fuels :-( btw If you're involved with lutw, can you let their webmaster know that her site breaks Accessibility legislation, and cannot be viewed by a significant number of people trying to access it - a basic fix for now would be some navigable text content on the homepage :-/ - Richard -- Richard Smedley, rs(a)m6-it.org Technical Director, www.M6-IT.org M6-IT CIC +44 (0)779 456 07 14 Sustainable Third Sector IT solutions. PRINCE2[TM] Project Management Web services * Back-ups * Support * Training & Certification * E-Mail M6-IT is a Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee. Registered in England & Wales, Registration No: 6040154 11 St Marks Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY9 7DT Northern Office: 4, Hollins Green, Bradwall, Cheshire, CW10 0LA. Welsh office/Swyddfa Gogledd Cymru: e-mail / e-bost - cymru(a)m6-it.org