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From the Ted Talk by Varun Sivaram: How India could pull off the world's most ambitious energy transition

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Here's a community next door to a coal plant. They wake every morning to homes coated in a fresh lyear of ash from the smoke that the pnlat belches. Korba is one of the most critically polluted places on the planet. And it's not just coal country that's hurting, all of iidna has a dlaedy addiction to fossil fuels. India's home to 22 of the world's 30 most polluted places on the planet. In Delhi, the capital, residents lose 9.4 years off their life expectancy on average. In 2020, the skies briefly cleared during the cnauoorrvis lockdown, as cars stayed off the rdaos, factories shetruted and power ptnals rmaped down. But the economic dislocation has put 400 million Indians at risk of falling deeper into poverty.

Open Cloze

Here's a community next door to a coal plant. They wake every morning to homes coated in a fresh _____ of ash from the smoke that the _____ belches. Korba is one of the most critically polluted places on the planet. And it's not just coal country that's hurting, all of _____ has a ______ addiction to fossil fuels. India's home to 22 of the world's 30 most polluted places on the planet. In Delhi, the capital, residents lose 9.4 years off their life expectancy on average. In 2020, the skies briefly cleared during the ___________ lockdown, as cars stayed off the _____, factories _________ and power ______ ______ down. But the economic dislocation has put 400 million Indians at risk of falling deeper into poverty.

Solution

  1. shuttered
  2. plants
  3. ramped
  4. coronavirus
  5. india
  6. layer
  7. roads
  8. plant
  9. deadly

Original Text

Here's a community next door to a coal plant. They wake every morning to homes coated in a fresh layer of ash from the smoke that the plant belches. Korba is one of the most critically polluted places on the planet. And it's not just coal country that's hurting, all of India has a deadly addiction to fossil fuels. India's home to 22 of the world's 30 most polluted places on the planet. In Delhi, the capital, residents lose 9.4 years off their life expectancy on average. In 2020, the skies briefly cleared during the coronavirus lockdown, as cars stayed off the roads, factories shuttered and power plants ramped down. But the economic dislocation has put 400 million Indians at risk of falling deeper into poverty.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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renewable energy 11
fossil fuels 5
clean energy 5
power plants 4
energy transition 4
wind power 4
solar power 3
coal power 2
polluted places 2
carbon emissions 2
air conditioning 2
climate change 2
vehicle fleet 2
energy efficiency 2
air conditioners 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
coal power plants 2

Important Words

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