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Cooking is a very different problem to providing a light source, and providing heat via electricity is very inefficient.

From what I remember, there have been several attempts to provide people in those areas with efficient stoves, but they haven't been very successful.

A quick search turned up the following paper discussing the problem: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945541/



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