no renewable energy sources,solar or wind turbine

[biff]

hi folks,
     in our travels around morroco we have kept our eyes open for solar power or wind turbines, however much to our disappointment there is nothing here that we can see which one could class as a renewable energy affair:
       everywhere we go we see people busy repairing old items such as bycles chairs and even shoes and by all accounts they do it skillfully;they are thrifty and hard working and surrounded by poverty:one would think that perhaps a turbine or two or solar pv panel would be a step in the right direction, even a flatplate solar would perform very well here:my wife and i could only find one shop that sold solar panels in marrakech,flatplates and sales were practically nonexistant;we must be looking in the wrong place; casablanca was fantastic even if it took 3 and a half hours each way from marrakech and again no turbines or solar items:
    when we were in puerto rico everywhere we looked were large solar arrays and the area outside las palmas was covered in large 3 phase wind turbines which drove their factories,
     perhaps energy here is extra cheap and people cannot be bothered,
 apart from that:; i dont think we have ever had a holiday quite like this one, things are so different here, we havz worked up the courage to phone hassan our merc taxi driver who will take us back over the atlas mts saturday morning,if allah is willing, the last time we saw these mountains ,it was dark; the cliffs and gorges were lit up with headlights,simply terrifying,i have a pretty good nerve but hours of hassans driving had me screaming to a croak, this time we will havz our cameras ready,  we could never post a pic here despite employing the best brains on pc;appearently our laptops are not up to it,if i do not post here in future it will mean that hassan let the steering play too much;all around me in this internet cafe are tall murmering long robed bearded men,extremely polite, i have a half mile to find back to the imperial hotel where tomorrow i celebrate my birthday, ya donna wanna knowa;
               good night folks;

[biff]

hi again good folks,
             gee but its good to be back home,,,,,one of the first lines in a simon and garfunkle song,marrakech is way back there in the dust,we arrived home safely and i guess we will be picking a different destination next time,
        no solar panels or wind turbines at all,we did see what we thought was a 30s wind charger the one with the multiple vanes,stuck among the trees,perhaps for show.morroco and marrakech are a world apart from what we have been used too,they are rules by a king or a pricnce and have pictures of him stuck up everywhere,so that would definatly be a drawback to any kind of free speech or civil rights,
    its hard to believe that christianity took root not far from here and that st agustain was a berber convert,the so called barbarians rode south from the germanic states,sacked the city of hippo ,clobbered old agustian to death,just for calling them barbarians,loitered around the place for a few years before the followers of allah sent them packing north again,to eventually land in rome via constantinople and even avignon in france,
    to me growing up and reading about the great silk trade routes,it was hard to believe that such a city as marrakech actually existed, but its there alright,i have been there and seen it,however the culture is so different that i may as well have travelled to mars and met the little green men.
  so we are back in the bog now, we collected or baby rotties from there kennels en route home,their greeting were wholesome and rough. things are back to normal.they can keep marrakech and its fantastic history,for all the good it done them,long live the bog.
                      biff,