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Urban Grid Expansion
Scott Tinker visits Africa's largest slum to look at the issues of urban grid expansion.
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Off-Grid Solar, Part 1
Join Dr. Scott Tinker on an unexpected journey -- in turns heart-warming, funny, eye-opening and unsettling -- to understand the benefits and challenges of bringing energy to more than 3 billion citizens of the developing world.
Off-Grid Solar, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 5 | 26m 46s | CC
For millions of off-grid citizens and villages, building their own solar power system may be the fastest way to get electricity. Dr. Scott Tinker visits a houseboat family in Vietnam, a Maasai family in Kenya, the Arhuaco tribe in remote Colombia, solar nonprofits and innovative start-ups to learn what it takes to plan, fund and build solar far off the beaten path.
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