The most popular websites in the world include Tmall.com. It is a Chinese-language website for business-to-consumer online retail, created by Jack Ma of Alibaba Group, China's richest man. I checked out Alibaba's facebook page, and found this among the recommendations and reviews:
"Items displayed are great but how do i order my choice of a solar powered egg incubator?"
That is intriguing to me - out of the 500 million people who use the site a month, it is solar-powered egg incubators that show up in a review.
But then, living in the first world bubble, what do I know about the topic. What I find are developing country initiatives:
Nigeria: "Egg incubators with regular, effective and efficient operation have the capacities of providing enough poultry birds which can serve every household in Nigeria with sufficient amount of protein on daily basis."
Kenya: "CALL-MAIN HATCHERY, is a company that makes solar powered incubators to provide employment to rural and town outskirt farmers, youth and women and to boost food security using renewable energy."
I went back to the Alibaba facebook page and clicked through to look at the reviews. Scrolling through them, the common feature is that they are mostly incoherent entries. The egg incubator actually is interesting in comparison.
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