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To: Mannie who wrote (43221)4/30/2005 11:54:29 PM
From: Clappy  Read Replies (3) of 104157
 
I'd like to hear what you have to say about that book
when you are done,

The book was pretty good.

I enjoyed reading out the various inventors.

It was more of an introduction to some great inventors and
some of thier ideas.

However, I think you would be very interested in reading up
on this inventor named Dr. Ashok Khosla from India.
(Google him, perhaps.)

The goal of his inventions are to lift entire developing
civilizations.

A great thinker is he.

Reminds me a bit of you.
He's focused on the rural poor of India which is 70% of their
population (which remains untouched by our outsourcing).

The problems he's pinpointed are that:
1) People need places to live but can't afford construction
materials.
2) They need to produce their own clothes locally.
3) They need ways to cook food but electric service is spotty
at best.
4) They need ways to purify water.
5) They need cheap, renewable energy.

He's invented a series of new products to help solve these
problems.
1) A hand-operated press that converts mud into hard bricks
for low cost housing.
2) A verticle kiln that rapidly bakes and churns out higher
quality bricks from native clay.
3) A machine for making cheap roofing tiles out of industrial
waste.
4) A process for turning local weeds into into a fuel that
can burn in a diesel engine that can power an entire village.
5) Woodstoves that dramatically decrease smoke inhalation.
6)Hand powered looms and paper making machines based on
radically simple designs.

Then he's set up franchises where people can buy in and
distribute and train people how to use these technologies.

In essence he helps to naturally create an economy within
each village.

Each franchise uses entrepreneurs who use credit to invest in
the products and to hire 4-48 employees. Then they have a
sustainable way to make goods that they can sell.

One such franchises' customers built the Indira Gandhi
National Cener for the Arts at a cost of $40,000.

It is pretty cool to see the minds of these people at work.

-Clapping
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