One week ago today, Gasa town was electrified. Gasa is the most remote dzongkag in Bhutan, and even now the town is most of a day’s walk from the nearest road. Until last week, they had lights and a community phone powered by solar panels – if the weather was good enough. In the last week, the townspeople have started using rice cookers and other hi-tech equipment.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, 6 remote towns were elavated to Gasa’s previous position, with solar panels providing power to a community communication centre with a phone, PC and internet.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it won’t be much longer until even Lunana, the most remote part of the country, still 8 days walk from a road and covered in snow 8 months each year, has some interaction with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One week ago today, Gasa town was electrified. Gasa is the most remote dzongkag in Bhutan, and even now the town is most of a day’s walk from the nearest road. Until last week, they had lights and a community phone powered by solar panels – if the weather was good enough. In the last… Continue reading Gasa Electrified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}