Yeah, no, not kidding, I'm working on the list. Just for starters though, three major things they did that just kill me were:

1) - No rainwater collection. They go on and on about not having access to clean drinking water, and several of their primary inventions were windmills and pumps for deep-well (100+ feet), passive water pumping. But they live in monsoon country, it's pouring rain 8 months out of the year, and it never occurred to them to make some ponds, cisterns, etc? A mid-90s video of their operations show them bottling water. I don't get it, I must be missing something.

2) - Really expensive modernist buildings. They were funded by the UN and others at various times and let the money guide a lot of their architecture decisions. Their buildings were not functional, timely, human-scale, passive, or made out of locally sourced materials. They were into cool shapes and lots of metal and glass when those things are completely impractical for bootstrappers living hundreds of miles across crappy dirt roads from the nearest city. It looks like they stopped doing this and are now using buildings that are a lot simpler and cheaper

3) - Really crummy living quarters. Badly ventilated, dirty, wet, dark, sad places for visitors and residents alike for more than 10 years. I'm hoping it's changed now, but don't know, never been there.

But from all the videos and things written about this place, it looks way awesome and creates a lot of useful plant- and technology-based jobs, and a safe fun place to live and grow up as a kid. So I'm not knocking it, just trying to point out what could be avoided in the future with hindsight.    :r]