What Connects a Mountain in Sudan with a Neighborhood Power Black-out?
What do a power cut and a Sudanese mountain have in common? Silence, sweet Silence! They can get you back to your source. The Power (Cut) and the Beauty! This evening, just as I was about to put my daughter’s favourite meal – home made vegetable lasagne – into the oven, the lights went off. A power cut had us standing slightly helpless in the dark. Luckily, the house is full of candles and my solar powered torch always works, so we fumbled our way to the fuse box and then to the door to find the street lights were off and everyone around us was in darkness too. This was a first for us and I liked it. My daughter was a little disappointed at having to replace lasagne with bread and cheese, but there we sat by candle light and made plans of what to do if this lasted for days. We felt a little adventurous and talked about what it would have been like to live without electricity, how people who have long power cuts in freezing conditions cope… And then, we noticed the silence – no buzz f
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- My neighborhood is experiencing a power outage and my solar inverter stopped working. Isn’t the system supposed to provide power in the event of an outage?
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