>> Wait - I thought that was still science fiction? You mean people 
>> somewhere *actually do this* now??
> 
> The company I work for made 600 MW of solar panels in 2006 (that's the 
> latest figures I could find), I'm sure it's gone up lots since then.  
> Drive around any village around here and you're bound to see at least a 
> few houses or barns covered in them.

Mmm, interesting. I've never seen that. (Again, presumably because I 
live in England.)

>> Actually, I guess the *main* difference would be that if you live in 
>> the Sahara, you don't give a **** about electricity, but you urgently 
>> need to find a crapload of water real soon now...
> 
> Funny, when I was in the Sahara desert, the villages there had a 
> perfectly fine water supply, also ATM machines, mobile phone coverage, etc.

Heh. And here I was thinking the only thing in a desert is sand...

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