Long power outage a wake-up call to be better prepared
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After 36 hours of what seemed like 19th-century living, a reporter emerges with a better understanding of how fragile America's infrastructure is.
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Powerful storms with rain and strong winds left nearly half a million homes and businesses without power early Thursday as the region braced for another day of 100-degree heat. Power officials said it could take five days to restore electricity.
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Almost every morning, the whirr of the power generator sitting outside house No. 36 broke the quiet of the neat tree-lined street, bringing air conditioners and refrigerators on the block back to life. On Thursday, the generator stood silent.
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Some businesses in California will probably be forced to cut electricity use on Thursday because hot weather and high air-conditioning use prompted the state's power grid manager to call a "Stage 2 power emergency."
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Millions were left without power and hundreds of thousands without ready access to gasoline, groceries or other daily staples.
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Companies are giving up control of their electrical systems, and they are being paid to do it. The goal? To better manage the nationâs burdened power grid.
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Change a light bulb and stop a war. Build smarter homes and keep the seas from rising.
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Nearly a quarter-million homes and businesses still had no electricity Monday as the city struggled to recover from last week's devastating thunderstorms.
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Most people in the United States only think about where electricity comes from when the lights unexpectedly go out.
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The government on Friday declared a national electricity emergency and said it would introduce urgent measures to try to reduce demand and boost supply, as sweeping power outages caused chaos and misery across the country
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light at a cost competitive with power from coal or natural gas. The challenges are formidable.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Power outages are a common occurrence in Kabwata, a poor neighborhood in the capital of this Southern African nation, where residents spend many of their evenings by candlelight, cooking with charcoal.
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Battery backups can save your butt during a blackout, but they're usually pretty pricey. Best Buy has one on sale for $29.99.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space-bound electricians lit up the skies on their way to make a cosmic nighttime house call.
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By Tim Blangger, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 25--Some evening after dark, turn off all the lights in your house. After your eyes adjust to the darkness, look around.
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A power failure with potentially devastating consequences at a new high-security research center provokes a critic's call for change.