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Hard for energy, from gathering firewood to paying the power bill,

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some humans will suddenly have access to this commodity for nothing.

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California, fourth largest economy in the world,

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now produces most days more than 100% of its electricity from renewable energy.

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At night, when the sun goes down,

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big new batteries on the grid turn dark into daylight.

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In Pakistan, peasant farmers who used to pay through the nose

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for diesel power to run their irrigation pumps

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are using 30% less of the fuel than they were two years ago,

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in large part because they've imported millions of cheap Chinese solar panels

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and gone on YouTube to figure out how to connect them up.

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They often lack the money to build the steel scaffolding

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we're used to seeing at solar farms.

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No matter.

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They just lay them on the ground and point them at the sun.

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In a world where many, many big things have taken a very dark turn this decade,

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this is the one big thing that is going right.

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