Alternative Fuels Now

It is an often repeated hope that new technologies should enable at least developing countries to get a jump start into the future. A phenomenon called leap-frogging. Indeed it happens and has happened only recently with the mobile phones. But we should not take it for granted that it happens and there are many exceptions to the rule. The World Bank has in a recent study gone into the details of the matter and The Economist sees, based on the WB report, only one clear case were we could see a new case of leap-frogging. And that is with decentralised generation of electricity from Biofuel and PV.