How to power Pacific islands
Turn the atolls themselves into power stations
YOUR LATEST electricity bill may have been a rude shock. But chances are it is way less than the bills facing inhabitants of remote islands such as those of the Federated States of Micronesia. In that country, an archipelago of just over 600 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, the residential rate per kWh is about three times the norm in America.
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