A friend of mine helped out in Uganda and you are correct. If India, or wherever they are targeting is similar they will have limited electricity and limited clean water.<p>It was my understanding that the village my friend worked at had a rationed power supply for the wotkers and medical clinic that was run by a generator.<p>Do this is my point. Literally providing access to water with a hole and pneumatics was such an improvement in quality of life I am not sure what the usecase for this is.<p>* complicated totally foreign technology<p>* lack of charging ability<p>* likelyhood of downloading the cracked screen app is pretty high.<p>* using low cost satelites and repeaters has to make more sense.<p>So I am not sure what communal charging is, but if it is a crank box or generator, In the hypothetical we have just invented it would almost certainly be cheaper (but way less sexier) to just build low cost suburban housing like the hexayurt and provide education and technology from existing infrastructure.<p>How Silicon Valley is a distributed drone based LAN that provides a hookup app to people starving in the bush, or in the sluns of India.<p>The tech is intellectually stimulating, it is one if the main usecases for Planet Labs Api, but maybe im missing something, but how does this make sense.<p>Also, how does this operate in production, these things fly around and then link to eacjother and towers recharging several times a day?<p>Those are real questions. What is the application and ehat does the implementation look like?