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Energy has so many complex facets. Those of us in urban environments enjoy massive amounts of energy. We drive cars, we take buses, we cook with gas and we might even have a refrigerator.

But for the rest of humanity, they are struggling to cook with a depleting supply of wood, their children are struggling to do their homework by the light of an open fire, and they need to walk for hours wherever they need to go because they don't have a car.

On the one hand this is a terrible travesty, on the other hand it is -- to use the example of wood fuel -- environmentally very challenging. There are also tremendous health concerns associated with burning biomass in an open fire.

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