Balafon » developing world http://balafon.net Shouting Into the Void Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:04:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Faster, Please http://balafon.net/archives/923 http://balafon.net/archives/923#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:42:51 +0000 Gordon http://balafon.net/?p=923 A US-Chinese research group has come up with a process to desalinate water (or treat waste-water) that actually produces electricity.

This could be HUGE, especially for the developing world, but everywhere. Imagine a plant that desalinates and treats sea water and produces the energy to pump it to homes and farms inland…

Wow.

]]> http://balafon.net/archives/923/feed 0 The Evils of Capitalism http://balafon.net/archives/710 http://balafon.net/archives/710#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:36:21 +0000 Gordon http://balafon.net/?p=710 Those dastardly drug companies, aided and abetted by software monopolists, are at it again: developing the first effective vaccine against malaria, a disease which kills a million children a year in Africa.

Damn Bill Gates and his running dogs at Glaxo-Smith-Kline!

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