Electricity
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And we do that with
electricity.
So we use
electricity
to dictate how they fire, and we try to block their misbehavior using
electricity.
The implications of this, of course, is that we may be able to modify the symptoms of the disease, but I haven't told you but there's also some evidence that we might be able to help the repair of damaged areas of the brain using electricity, and this is something for the future, to see if, indeed, we not only change the activity but also some of the reparative functions of the brain can be harvested.
There's no
electricity.
And then, in addition to that, at the same time, hand tools were replaced by massive electric tools and hand-powered electric tools, all achieved by
electricity.
Electricity
was also very helpful in liberating women.
But the women still had to shop every day, but no they didn't, because
electricity
brought us the electric refrigerator.
Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of people to lose the 20th century, maybe for a couple of days, in some cases for more than a week, electricity, running water, heating, gasoline for their cars, and a charge for their iPhones.
You see, the first wave of managers simply replaced their steam engines with electric motors, but they didn't redesign the factories to take advantage of
electricity'
s flexibility.
Electricity
is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it.
I've really tried to solve some big problems: counterterrorism, nuclear terrorism, and health care and diagnosing and treating cancer, but I started thinking about all these problems, and I realized that the really biggest problem we face, what all these other problems come down to, is energy, is electricity, the flow of electrons.
In a nuclear power plant, you have a big pot of water that's under high pressure, and you have some fuel rods, and these fuel rods are encased in zirconium, and they're little pellets of uranium dioxide fuel, and a fission reaction is controlled and maintained at a proper level, and that reaction heats up water, the water turns to steam, steam turns the turbine, and you produce
electricity
from it.
This is the same way we've been producing electricity, the steam turbine idea, for 100 years, and nuclear was a really big advancement in a way to heat the water, but you still boil water and that turns to steam and turns the turbine.
So they're modular reactors that are built essentially on an assembly line, and they're trucked anywhere in the world, you plop them down, and they produce
electricity.
That's how much thermal energy the reactor's putting out to how much
electricity
it's producing.
This is the thermodynamic cycle that produces electricity, and this makes this almost 50 percent efficient, between 45 and 50 percent efficiency.
Molten salt reactors are very compact by nature, but what's also great is you get a lot more
electricity
out for how much uranium you're fissioning, not to mention the fact that these burn up.
So I really think that in the, say, 20 years it's going to take us to get fusion and make fusion a reality, this could be the source of energy that provides carbon-free
electricity.
Carbon-free
electricity.
And the
electricity
runs through your body too.
That seemed a little damning, and I tried to correlate it with things like infrastructure, or with the availability of electricity, and things like that.
This is coal, the most common source of
electricity
on the planet, and there's enough energy in this coal to light this bulb for more than a year.
This year alone, in partnership with more than 80 utilities in six countries, we're going to generate another two terawatt hours of
electricity
savings.
In terms of coal, we'd need to burn 34 of these wheelbarrows every minute around the clock every day for an entire year to get two terawatt hours of
electricity.
Twenty percent of the
electricity
in homes is wasted, and when I say wasted, I don't mean that people have inefficient lightbulbs.
That's 40 billion dollars a year wasted on
electricity
that does not contribute to our well-being but does contribute to climate change.
And in Kenya, it's a very different reality, and one thing that remains despite the leaps in progress and the digital revolution is the
electricity
problem.
What if we could overcome the problem of unreliable Internet and
electricity
and reduce the cost of connection?
So we looked at the modem, an important part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and asked ourselves why the modems that we are using right now are built for a different context, where you've got ubiquitous internet, you've got ubiquitous electricity, yet we sit here in Nairobi and we do not have that luxury.
The other reason that we built this is when
electricity
goes down, this has eight hours of battery left, so you can continue working, you can continue being productive, and let's just say you are less stressed.
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