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Romania. Five mile walk to recharge phones
This makes one stop and be grateful at how easy it is for us to recharge our cell phones. It also follows an earlier story posted today on a company called Freeplay Energy, that develops and sells 'wind-up' energy generators - for remote areas without electricty (cf Mobile Power) Mobile phones have become popular in a remote Romanian village - even though users have to walk five miles to recharge them, reports Ananova. "People from Ciosa, in Bistrita Nasaud county, are buying phones even though they have never had electricity in their village. Their network signal is good but they have to walk to the next village to recharge their phone batteries. The Jurnalul daily newspaper reports that many of the village's 80 households now own at least one mobile phone." |
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