She grew up in a commune in Vermont with no electricity, and they grew their own food.
Born in the dark of night with no electricity, that child had the cord wrapped around her neck and no one had seen it.
It was gray and dark, with no electricity in the tall towers, and people either ambling numbly on the street or marching to and from darkened apartments.
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Our team of nine journalists and four drivers had arrived in Concepcion to join a few others, but we'd all been stymied by the lack of generators or fuel to power them in a place with no electricity.
Blackouts are nothing new in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day, says the BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad.
At 11 p.m. the two pulled up at a dark house with a dirt floor and no electricity--"a place I wouldn't even put my dog, " Parisi recalls. (Make that 13 dogs, all dachshunds.) A wrinkled old man came shuffling toward Parisi in the candlelight.
But those cold winter days do happen to coincide with there being no usable wind generated electricity at all.
Despite the privations that come with squatting in buildings that often have no electricity or running water, Kern says she would do it again -- although she wants to try out the many other alternative lifestyles out there first.
There is no way to reconcile that statistic with electricity production, which increased only 1.5% in September year-on-year, or electricity consumption, which rose 2.9%.
The new houses are too far out, with no adequate public transport, and they are sometimes built before water, electricity or schools get there.
In the village of Santo Domingo, the ICRC sets up its clinic in the long abandoned health centre - a dilapidated three-room building with broken windows, and, like the rest of the village, no electricity.
And Germany still has no proper wholesale market in electricity, although one may develop along with a new power-derivatives exchange, due to open in Frankfurt next year.
The industry watchdog said no major supplier had equalised prepayment meter charges with standard credit for both gas and electricity.
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