I belong to a group that sends teams to Haiti, and other 3rd world countries, to build, fix, and teach nationals how to be self sufficient and improve life in off-grid villages. They came to me to ask for help creating energy systems that would work in Off-Grid, Low-Tech environments. This is a place to discuss such types of systems. Electricity (wind/microhydro), Hot water production (solar/biomass), Well Pumping(wind), clean water production (distillation/reverse osmosis), alternative buildings, indigenous materials, etc.