If it were only a few hours/day it would be next to heaven. The "load-shedding" in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, has sometimes been 12 or more hours per day. Lusaka is perfectly modern...so long as there is electricity. With no power, there is also no electric range, and people must cook outside on charcoal grills. The situation is so undependable that my stepchildren had to invest in solar power cells and a storage battery unit. Even crappy technology is a head above better technology that doesn't work.
If it were only a few hours/day it would be next to heaven. The "load-shedding" in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, has sometimes been 12 or more hours per day. Lusaka is perfectly modern...so long as there is electricity. With no power, there is also no electric range, and people must cook outside on charcoal grills. The situation is so undependable that my stepchildren had to invest in solar power cells and a storage battery unit. Even crappy technology is a head above better technology that doesn't work.