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Growing Pains: Nations Balance Growth, Power Needs

 

“These days electricity is so important to industrial society that providing adequate power isn’t good enough. For example, businesses that rely on the Internet simply can’t afford to be without power, even for a minute. Sure, it was a nuisance for Indian commuters on electric trains to get stranded. But, [Jesse] Ausubel says, the risk to our interconnected world runs much deeper. ‘It’s not just the railroads stopping, it really is the signal that if you want to be in the 21st century economy, you need to be very, very good at electricity,’ he says.”