Two Billion Light Up: The South Asian Electric Wave

A map depicting South Asia at night, with cities across India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines aglow with electricity

      …In the electric age, platinum, and quartz, and every existing substance can be melted and distilled or sublimed. Thus, mighty new industries have grown up, and many new materials made available to man, as alumnium, silicon, calcium, chromium, the carbides, cyanamid, acetolyene…   Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Scientific American, 1914       […]