Why is it idiotic?

"The first practical windmills were the vertical axle windmills invented in eastern Persia, as recorded by the Persian geographer Estakhri in the 9th century.[1][2]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill

"In 1827, Hungarian Anyos Jedlik started experimenting with electromagnetic rotating devices which he called electromagnetic self-rotors. In the prototype of the single-pole electric starter (finished between 1852 and 1854)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_generator

"The electric car was among the oldest automobiles

Hmm, this discussion has inspired a poem:

The Road
-----------
Walking through the forest one day,

I chanced upon some men and machines.

They were chopping down the trees,

stripping and tarring the trunks,

standing them back up,

dead,

in concrete and asphalt,

and,

finally,

connecting them with wires.

"Where does it lead?", I asked.

"We don't know", they answered.

I think you should be more concerned with the lack of education in your homeland, Xeno, before you worry about saving the whole world by bringing them down to your 3rd world level.

How would you mass produce tree houses anyway?  Mass production requires a centralized facility to produce said goods.  Tree houses need to be built based on the tree, so you can't make a standard model of each.  It would be like mass producing houses at a factory, then distributing the houses to various plots of land. 

"wikipedia != good refference material"

Yes, actually, it is good reference material (check sources at bottom of pages).  Plus, it's accessible to everyone, for free, doing what the university library systems should do but don't because they are run by greedy, corrupt, hypocrites that don't really care about educating people, don't really care about helping the world, don't really care about anything other than money.  Wikipedia is the best thing on the internet.  I hope it puts universities out of 'business'.

"Having technology != being able to mass produce it cheaply (the important part of model T)"

I disagree.  Having technology = individuals having tools at their disposal to aid them in survival / increase their quality of life.  Mass production - just one form of technology.  And like all forms of technology, it is a form that can be used in a decentralized political system / institution or a centralized one.

You can have many small individual companies mass-producing components and another small companies assembling them into a final product with another small company doing the marketing and distribution of the final product, or you can have what you have now:

a huge centralized company mass-producing all the components and even doing the mining of the raw-materials needed for the construction of those components, and a bigger, more centralized company that even owns / runs the oil wells and oil refineries that produce the oil for the company's power plants, the energy from which the company not only uses to power its countless factories but also fuel their 'security' forces, which under the guise of a so called war on terror invades oil-rich countries / instigates regime changes in oil-rich countries so that they can control land in those countries to build more oil wells to produce more energy to build more factories to produce more 'security' vehicles so they can invade more countries to get more oil to build more factories to produce more poorly designed products to shove down the throats of the citizens of the nations they control vis a vis the 'company's' (or should we now call it a state now?) mass-media, vis a vis television ads interspersed between re-runs of unimaginative escapist sitcoms and made-for-TV movies etc., etc., etc...

You're from China

I was going to point out the idiocy in his saying we should take away ALL income a person can get from academic contribution (which is already small), but I really don't care for the majority of academics so I'm just gonna let it slide.

You have to remember, You_Fool, that his country doesn't have the public libraries (and relatively public libraries) of our nations. Their focus is support through indoctrination. They teach him that the West is evil and it is their evil which causes poverty. He doesn't have the things we have at our disposal 7 days a week that we are so wealthy we generally ignore for our whole lives. But he DOES have the ignorance and arrogance to think he knows about these things and post anyway! That makes up for it; right? Be nice. Maybe he knows and he's just jealous.

You have a lot of focus on "give everyone X standard" (and you set a pretty high standard, with food, housing, clothing, internet, etc) with NO attention to PEOPLE HAVE TO DO X WORK TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. You gloss over this DETAIL which is the BIGGEST FOCUS OF HUMAN LABOR SINCE THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY. Work on that.

OMG YOU SAID "CHINA"

NOW YOUR A COMMUNIST (according to some)

OMG, YOUR SO LUCKY YOUR NOT IN MY FAM

else id give you a aid embargo!!!

"the public libraries" != "public libraries"

The "doesn't have," "the," and "of our nations" are guilty of giving away the comparison.

You'll find that China does not allow its fine citizens all of the reading materials we enjoy access to.

Hey, you nitpicked first. I was just more brutal! Try harder next time!