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LOW-COST SOLAR INVADES KENYA. People think that these low-cost solar light kits are only for the ?

By Glenn Reynolds

LOW-COST SOLAR INVADES KENYA.

People think that these low-cost solar light kits are only for the poor. They?re wrong. I use them, as do many middle-class Kenyans if they can get their hands on them. The market is bigger than just the ?bottom of the pyramid?.

Finally, I?m greatly pleased to see legitimate businesses, not NGOs, leading this charge. The quickest way to ruin this fledgling industry is by false ceilings imposed by development/aid subsidies around these products.

(Via Toby Buckell, who speculates about leapfrogging.)

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).