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Report Warns of More Frequent Blackouts in the Future

2014-02-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Soaring electricity demand for air-conditioning, iPads and increasingly cars, combined with a growing population and inadequate investment in creaking power networks, is pushing the world towards frequent blackouts, academics warn. China, Brazil and Italy have all had significant power failures in the past decade but these are just "dress rehearsals for the future" in which the lights will go out with increasing frequency and severity, predicts a new paper, Blackouts: a sociology of electrical...

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