In a Kampuchean village where there is no electricity

Hey! How are you. I am fine thank you.

It has been a week from I arrived at a Kampuchean village.

The purpose of business trip is that testing of natural energy power plant combined with methane gas and photovoltaic generation.

Methane gas generation is capable from that thousand cattle excrement in stockyard through fermentation.

It is the research and development business of the NEDO, new energy development organization.

Testing proceed smoothly because of that the excrement of the natural Kampuchean cattle which may grew good in natural condition.

　 I happened to find out a internet cafe in my hotel, then get a ID from Yahoo Japan and success my homepage.

The site is located in the hinterland of about 75km far from the only export port Shianoukville in Kampuchean the 3rd city.

I go to the site with land-cruiser together with the colleague from the hotel of Sianoukville.

It is first time I worked at a village where there is no electricity though I made a business trip abroad many times.

Small village consist of simple high floor-type houses scattered around route 4.

Though today is February 21, daytime temperature is about 33 degrees and 20 degree even at night.

Because it is such a warm climate, it is general that people wear short sleeves with sandals.

Many barefoot children are seen, too.

It is impressive that people are very gentle and a polite as for the people though one of the world extreme poor countries that have just stood up from the long civil war.

I think that they teach us important things that we forgot.

Though there is no electricity, many people don't seem to have even a lamp.

It seems to be the life of that they get up with sunrise and go to bed soon after sunset.

They don't have TV.

They enjoy conversation with the family under the moonlight or around fire.

After completion of the power plant, we will do research and development of combined natural power plant between methane gas and photovoltaic generating electricity one year.

Then it will be handed over to Cambodia at free of charge.

Therefore education and training is done in parallel with the testing.

A very eager education attitude is wonderful.

I am very happy to assist Kampuchean people with to carry out mind of Kyoto agreement though it feels exactly equivalent in the introduction time of the West technology of the Japanese Meiji Period.

On February 21, in a Kampuchean village Y.Noguchi