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April 4th, 2016 Video courtesy of Seeker Stories Although 600 million people live without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, Seeker Stories met 3 inspiring Tanzanians who found unique ways to hack the energy crisis. New Book Reveals the Little Known Secrets of ...

  President Obama’s war on coal, a resource that provides 35 percent of America’s power, likely won’t end when he leaves office in January 2017. That’s because both Democratic presidential candidates are passionately opposed to coal. “We have to move ...

No matter how much thought and effort we put into preparing for the unknown, there’s always something we’re likely to forget. We fail to stock up on this, we put off buying that, or we neglect preparing things we think ...

A widely feared nightmare scenario has finally occurred, although in another country — hackers were able to cause a widespread power failure in the Ukraine by infecting utilities’ computers with malware. It is the first time a cyberattack has caused ...

January 4th, 2016 Video courtesy of Tim Pool Windows 10 is tracking you and reading your content and soon windows will roll out the same updates for Windows 7 and 8. New Book Reveals the Little Known Secrets of How ...

Cooking when the grid is down can be a bit tricky for those who rely on their oven or other electrical appliances to prepare a meal. Whether you live in an area prone to power outages or simply want to ...

Iranian hackers have successfully penetrated America’s power grid and accessed passwords and engineering drawings of power plants, and security experts say it’s only a matter of time before such an attack leads to widespread blackouts, the Associated Press reported. In ...

The state of Illinois has received a letter that usually is reserved for customers who don’t have enough money in the bank — a disconnect notice from the electric company. Power to state offices could be shut off because the ...

Our sun is a very volatile star, with violent eruptions often occurring without us even knowing it. Solar storms, defined by NASA as “eruptions of mass and energy from the solar surface, including prominences, flares, sunspots and coronal ejections,” are ...

Back in the old days, a root cellar was not a luxury, but instead was just as essential as our refrigerators are to us today. A well-constructed root cellar can be a real life-saver — especially if you live off ...