Have they themselves actually been to a Nepali village that didn't have lights on a doctor's medical centre where he was forced to deliver babies at night by candles, forgotten by the modern west? I've seen it with my own eyes. Have they seen people in Kathmandu ration power because of blackouts up to 18 hours per day? I've been in it and talked to small scale manufacturers frustrated because they cannot do normal business each day.

Yes, i believe you! I have seen similar stuff myself in Indon. I think that energy poverty is indeed still a serious problem, especially in countries with cold and harsh winter.

Some solutions include greater provenance over where and how the distributed solar electricity was generated. And tying this provenance to the blockchain. These are active areas of research and development that we are doing at ElectriCChain and SolcryptoJV. We've even found a way to tie things together with Steem.

But, i am curious on how you are going to link this problem to the steem blockchain?? Write a post on it maybe????