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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.

The Itaipu dam: A massive binational collaboration between Paraguay and Brazil

Infrastructure
Makaa or charcoal is often used in cooking methods in Kenya and other countries in Africa.

The push to end harmful cooking methods worldwide

Energy

Super Cool Biz: Japan’s Summer Dress Code

Arts, Culture & Media
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
Rooftop solar panels in Queens.

A new way to go local: Buy solar energy from your neighbors

Economics

A project in New York aims to put energy choice in the hand(held devices) of consumers. How?

Jogger.

Tired of jogging? There’s an exosuit for that.

Technology

According to the suit’s creators, it can cut the metabolic cost of a treadmill run by 5.4 percent.

The World

Takeouts: Gulf oil spill threatens Democrat’s climate bill, listener responses

Conflict & Justice

Washington Takeout: Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich explains how the oil spill that threatens the business and environment of the Gulf Coast region is also threatening Congressional Democrats who hoped to pass a sweeping energy and climate reform bill. Listener Responses: We hear what you had to say about the Times Square bomb attempt and […]

China says it will invest another $361 dollars in renewable energy over the next four years and create 13 million new jobs in the sector, building on previous massive investments. The country already has the largest capacity of solar p

Donald Trump sees the future in coal. China sees the future in renewables. Who’s making the safer bet?

Environment

China says it’ll invest an additional $361 billion in renewable energy projects by 2020, and in the process create 13 million new jobs. The move’s in sharp contrast to Donald Trump’s promise to reinvigorate the coal industry in the US. Mary Kay Magistad of The World’s “Whose Century Is It?” podcast says China seems to have a clearer vision of the future.

Solar power booming in the United States

Environment

After years of waiting and hoping, solar power is now affordable, and some solar power companies are cashing in.

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Agricultural Bees, China’s Energy Future, Frankenstein In Class. Feb 2, 2018, Part 1