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Leapfrogging to Solar in Africa

Just as the developing world leapfrogged landlines (going straight to cell phones), it seems it is leapfrogging some dirty energy options and going straight to clean, renewable energy. Africa’s poor, for example, are getting a new line of solar energy products that shoot them forward in a variety of ways. Video below:

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