Design for Isolated and Inexperienced user base

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:43:32PM +1100, Dan McGarry wrote:

:>Electric power: solar? stationary bicycle? I'm dreaming of the 
:>hand-cranked $100 laptop that the MIT gang is trying to produce.
:
:Truck batteries. 8^)

Simple, reliable, available, I love it.

Do you use an inverter to provide AC power of just a transformer to
rectify the DC voltage?