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Finance for electricity access too little, too dirty – energy body

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Thomson Reuters Foundation Finance to provide electric power to nearly one billion people who live without it is rising – but too slowly to meet a global goal to reach everyone by 2030, an international body said on Monday. Meanwhile, funding to expand cleaner, more energy-efficient cooking has declined, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) said […]

Power-for-all push risks leaving out Africa’s poorest – official

Thomson Reuters Foundation Parts of Africa will get left behind in the global push to provide electric power to all unless national governments and the international community agree on a plan for faster action in places that are lagging, a top energy official has warned. Of the roughly one billion people who still lack access […]

ELECTRICITY

Lightning

I love it. When humanity first discovered – and was able to harness – electricity, they thought they had found ‘it’, the secret to life! The thing that animates people and animals. The Divine Spark! PICTURE: Jonas Kaiser/Unsplash Why, they could send a spark down a dead frog’s leg and get it to jump! An unconscious […]