Any "start-up" energy costs are minuscule at best and are more than offset by the money you save from turning your lights off, even if it's only for a short time.
The education about Guyana itself, the local peoples, Africans and Indians and the other RACES, the indigenous population especially, was marginal, minuscule at best.
It is unfathomable to me as to how the girl can scrape by on such a minuscule amount of money.
The film was shot in 17 days, a minuscule amount of time.