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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. We measure access to electricity no better than we do the rate of literacy. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

Central African Republic

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus. The presence of oil and gas installations in his village, which is in the oil-producing part of Nigeria, led him to wonder how they worked and how they were remotely controlled.

Nigeria

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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