Video: Solar power in a remote village in Iran

Iran has some of the most

Iran has some of the most remote and most difficult-to-access villages anywhere in the world, and there is a reason for it! People have dispersed and run deep into the mountain ranges for security reasons throughout the ages. Starting from Arab invasions, their outlaw descendents, Mongols, Turks, you name it, they have all been ravaging the countryside for over one and one half millennia. The question to ask is: would it be reasonable to bring this type of infrastructure (electric power lines), at considerable expense, to small dwellings without economic output potential ? In all likelihood, most of the residents of these remote villages will have to migrate to industrial centers for sustainable employment, anyhow. Why not plan their resettlement in smaller industrial cities that can offer "sustainable" employment and engage/plug them into the national economy before expenditure on these totally government subsidized projects and without meaningful economic return ?

The second question is: how is this type of development economically sustainable ? Although, solar systems are some of the simpler ones, how and who will maintain and repair these remotely built infrastructure ? This has the potential of becoming an expensive and entangled network of power, telephone and any other infrastructure into difficult areas that may not be inhabited in a couple of generations. For the time being, and in the future, these villages can hardly sustain themselves without any economic potential for the future.

Lastly, under similar infrastructure development projects, the Islamist regime established running water and electricity to many villages in the 1980's (thru today). There is a very cynical aspect of these peaceful development plans that has kept the regime in power. Building power lines to every village meant a radio and a TV set in every village dwelling, and therefore the Islamist regime's propaganda intrusions into millions of households. The Islamists took full advantage of this intrusion and brought millions of naïve peasants into their Islamic blood fest against Saddam. Even as the city dwellers were completely fed up with mullah/Islam nonsense, there were always fresh brainwashed peasants coming to cities as the "martyr seeking troops on the scene", ready for orders from their Emam.

The tables have now turned. The early means of outside communication, like radio and TV, that are in control of the regime as their ideological instruction tools have now expanded into e-mails and internet that provides access to the entire world with minimal regime control. Will the Islamist regime subsidize broadband connection to remote villages as well ?

میگما.......

یه چند تا نظر قربونی و ک...گربه بهشون آویزون کنین و یه خورده پشگل ماچلاغ زیرشون دود کنین نکنه زبونم لال بقیه دنیا چشمشون بزنن !

آخه نه اینکه هیچ جائ دیگه تو دنیا برف و طوفان  نمیاد !

یه چند تا سوره امن یجیب و قل هو الله هم بد نیست....

یا میتونین پولهای این مردم بدبخت رو نفرستین فلسطین و آمریکا ی جنوبی که چار تا از خودتون ک... خل تر رو "هوادار" کنین، بجاش برق به اینا بدین!

اینا اگه از فردا ملیتشون رو عوض میکردن و میشدن فلسطینی احتیاجی به این شامورتی بازی‌ها نداشتن، در عوض از دریا ی نفت و گازی که زیر پاشون خوابیده یه چراغ تو خونشون روشن میشد   

In this case MRX1

You are just fanatic in your ideology. 

it's good to know

that it,s almost 2009 and after 30 years this regime still can not get electricity into everry town and village and it has to resort to this shamorty bazi and pr video.

Incredible

Amazing, fantastic. This is great

30 years after "revolution" we find Shah was right!

Now we see a glimpse of why Shah could not provide electricity for every tiny village in Iran. Even with 30 years improved technology, it is still impossible to provide electricity for some villages. Good thing we threw the "dictator" out, ha? What a sad joke!

Is that thing used for

Is that thing used for shade?