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RE: How is this even remotely feasable?
By AssBall on 3/16/2009 9:18:38 PM , Rating: 4
It's hard to get into the second world when half your village is dying of Malaria, smartass.

By paydirt on 3/17/2009 9:29:26 AM , Rating: 2
In Africa, over ONE MILLION people die PER YEAR from malaria. Though "lasers" sounds silly (frickin laser beams), it is a serious problem.

Bad water and malnutrition are also problems along with the seemingly endless wars.

RE: How is this even remotely feasable?
By karkas on 3/17/2009 1:34:19 PM , Rating: 3
In your zeal to flame me you missed the forest for the trees... The areas being devastated by malaria have NO POWER to even so much as run a water purifier to cleanse contaminated local water supplies prior to drinking.

I could build one of these things put it in a nice & pretty suitcase, buy a plane ticket and fly to the region ready to kill some bugs and guess what... there is no power plug to be found!

The point of my post was to show that lasers have a huge power requirement problem. If you want lasers, you have to solve that problem 1st. If you solve the power problem, you will largely cease to have a malaria problem because this will move you out of the 3rd world.

There is already a very good solution that has been available since 1874, is cheap, and it doesn't require any power to use... DDT. It was banned in order to theoretically save some random bird species and subsequently doomed millions of Africans to a painful death.

I didn't really want to get into the DDT debate, but I think it is a very viable alternative.

By Integral9 on 3/18/2009 10:53:20 AM , Rating: 2
Fortunately most of those mosquito filled regions have tons of sun light and or wind.

