Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Dark no more

"How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid" - what? Built their own . . electric grid?!  How great is that.

"Modern infrastructure had bypassed Nicaragua’s northern highlands, so locals took matters into their own hands" with some cable, other stuff, and some positive thinking.

We’ve always lived in the dark here,” says Salvador Gonzáles, a resident of the valley and one of the men volunteering on the line crew. For him, the arrival of electricity means a refrigerator and a leap in quality of life. “I’ll have my soda cold, some chicken, some meat, a Popsicle,” he says."

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