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Cuba’s long-ailing power supply fails

Energy

Emily Morris, a senior research fellow at the University College London’s Institute of the Americas speaks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about Cuba’s failing power grid.

Hampshire College library

Hampshire College goes 100 percent solar

Education
A family bathe and wash their car with mountain spring water after hurricane Maria hit the area in September, in Utuado, Puerto Rico.

In hurricane aftermath, Puerto Ricans get impatient with shortages

Global Politics
Two days after Hurricane Irma, an elderly resident stand in a dark hallway at Cypress Run, an assisted living facility without power, food, or water, in Immokalee, Florida, U.S., September 12, 2017.

How to avoid blackouts in hurricanes? Model power grids after the internet, says one expert.

Technology
Solar panels

California’s electrical grid can’t handle all the solar energy the state is producing

Technology
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A lemon battery

Scientists make a battery that runs on stomach acid

Technology

The tiny voltaic cell could power sensors that track your vitals or deliver medication inside your gut.

A teacher in Kolkata conducts a lesson during a particularly bad power outage that swept across India in July, 2012.

In India, reliable electricity is no guarantee

Development

People in India have had to adapt to the country’s notoriously unreliable electricity. Deepak Singh is staying with his parents in Lucknow for the summer, where he has relearned how to live without the promise of sustained power.

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