Energy: An Electrifying Solution
Whether you live in the world’s most developed country or in the least developed, your government has an energy problem. Look around your house. How many things do you use every week, every day, all the time that require electricity? How many more things than five years ago, twenty years ago? Freezers, Wi-Fi routers, hearing aids, cars — our lives are totally electrified.
Poor countries? In Zimbabwe, the rural woman I stayed with had no running water and cooked over a fire. No electrical outlets in her home — but she walked two miles to town once a week to use a community laptop.
