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by fogihujy 1742 days ago
A lot of places don't have electricity or paved roads...
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They don’t have paved roads, but they still have electricity. I stayed in a place in China off the grid on a trip (it was on a mountain in the Tibetan part of Sichuan), they still had electricity via a water wheel. When the water wheel was knocked out of alignment, the electricity went off.

A lot of off the grid solutions for electricity, getting regular gasoline shipments to those locations is much more of a challenge.