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With current technology, it's not fundamentally a technology problem. Now, there'll be continued technological innovations that will bring the cost down and the case becomes even more persuasive, but you have an NGO for example called Light up the World, Canadian NGO started by an engineering professor at the University of Calgary, really interesting little NGO and he has basically figured out how over the last 10 years how to assemble a rural lighting system out of existing components. It's not the huge you know BP Solurex rooftop panels you know that they want to try to market to the top of the pyramid you know, to the Germans primarily these days. It's ... little 1 and 2 watt panels because that would be what those in rural areas would need at a household scale. They don't have the money or the need for some huge BP Solurex panel. A little 1 or 2 watt panel like this, and who's producing those today? Well, it's mainly the Indians and the Chinese you know, not the western producers.