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0	4400	Hard for energy, from gathering firewood to paying the power bill,
4800	9460	some humans will suddenly have access to this commodity for nothing.
10320	13900	California, fourth largest economy in the world,
14300	20660	now produces most days more than 100% of its electricity from renewable energy.
20660	23160	At night, when the sun goes down,
23440	28660	big new batteries on the grid turn dark into daylight.
28660	33800	In Pakistan, peasant farmers who used to pay through the nose
33800	37480	for diesel power to run their irrigation pumps
37480	42660	are using 30% less of the fuel than they were two years ago,
43060	48020	in large part because they've imported millions of cheap Chinese solar panels
48020	52000	and gone on YouTube to figure out how to connect them up.
52380	56660	They often lack the money to build the steel scaffolding
56660	59140	we're used to seeing at solar farms.
59620	60080	No matter.
60580	63860	They just lay them on the ground and point them at the sun.
64900	71480	In a world where many, many big things have taken a very dark turn this decade,
71480	75320	this is the one big thing that is going right.
75320	75320