Wind energy in the developing world | TerraPass

Wind turbines join cell phones in the global game of technological leapfrog. Some of us in the United States would like to be "off the grid", but it's an expensive proposition. Buying land, building a house, and then driving to work from who knows where, I don't see how it could be done without a high-paying job that you could telecommute to (and I'd rather not live in that kind of isolation these days). In India and other countries there isn't a grid, at least not a reliable one, so industry becomes self-sustaining out of necessity.