National power grid.

Take up any slack in the Cable and Zip Tie it near the Receptacle

Jolt, electrify!

But I can assure you that this woman in the favela in Rio, she wants a washing machine.

Even the safety of the inventor is an important factor, since the monopoly of our current energy suppliers leaves no room for progress.

It's for energy.

The power plant supplies the remote district with electricity.

It's not impossible, but it's not a very easy thing.

There are challenges. There are challenges.

They must change behavior in some way.

Timbal's power grids and infrastructure have been restored.

The world in which I operate operates with designs regarding roads, or dams, or provision of electricity that have not been revisited in 60 years.

Enough energy to power Pittsburgh.

The river furnishes electric power to the town.

That's a ton of power.

All right, you put a fourgam Kel on here, it's gonna take out power to the building.

In other words, it's a matter of knowledge, not resources.

Most use technology to define the function. We use function to drive the technology.

Nuclear power plants supply 20 of the nation's electricity.

We don't know what we're talking about.

And so the fallacy that we need this resource and we can actually make it in a time frame that is meaningful is not possible.

It could be on your roof, your backyard, or somewhere else.

laptops, a whole range of different things.

This power station alone provides several cities with electricity.

It was just freak electrical storm has caused rolling blackouts and gridlock throughout the city.

And, ultimately, the arithmetic problem isn't going to go away.

Now, they take this out, wipes out all the power for the entire Eastern Corridor.

This is the electrical supply for a hospital in rural Malawi.

Apply pipe thread sealant to the air gun hose fitting and fasten it tightly to the connecting point

KIO data supply error.

This dam supplies us with water and electricity.

People take electricity for granted until its supply is cut off.

like community supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on.

You could have things like supply shocks.

And is only affects the payback period, it doesn't mean that you couldn't use solar energy you could use it anywhere on Earth.

That's exactly how the outlets are designed.

But electricity is also very, very broad, so you have to sort of narrow it down.

And during all this time, what was the power source?

Let's think about ourselves as grape farmers and I'll make a little supply schedule right over here

So I grew up in Limpopo, on the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, a little town called Motetema.

So let me just say population.

This hospital is connected to a very weak power grid, one that goes down frequently.

People are anti everything, and we've got to keep all the options on the table.

There was one kind of peak oil in 1985, when oil represented 50 percent of global energy supply.

And I want to close with this map that just visualizes for you the requirement of land and so forth in order to get just 16 lightbulbs per person from four of the big possible sources.