
512 Promoting PV in Developing Countries
here was a Francophone engineer already working on solar in Africa.
Hey presto they asked Terry if he would like to move to Mali, invited
him to Colorado to discuss, and he quickly relocated to Bamako.
He achieved wonders, considering the conditions of Mali, and the
primitive state of the technologies. The designers of the project
(and many other USAID projects in Africa) were certain that the
technology was not a problem, and a key component was to send in
teams of anthropologists and socio-bullshitologists to measure the
impact of the technologies (even if nothing was working!). After the
USAID project Terry ...