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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part. Marketing takes work

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


Specifically, there are two types of access that are going to end energy poverty: there's physical access, and there's financial access. So, physical access — what does that mean? It's very expensive for low-income households in __________ countries to reach major centers of commerce. And it's _________ __________ for them to order something off Amazon.com. “The last mile” is a phrase that's normally associated with the telecommunications industry. It _____ that last bit of wire that's necessary to connect the customer to the provider. What we need for ending energy poverty are last-mile retailers that _____ these clean energy products to the people. The ________ and charcoal value ______ already _______ this out: those fuels are ubiquitous across the entire country. You can go to the most remote village in Haiti and you will find somebody selling kerosene and charcoal.

Solution


  1. figured
  2. basically
  3. kerosene
  4. chains
  5. bring
  6. impossible
  7. means
  8. developing

Original Text


Specifically, there are two types of access that are going to end energy poverty: there's physical access, and there's financial access. So, physical access — what does that mean? It's very expensive for low-income households in developing countries to reach major centers of commerce. And it's basically impossible for them to order something off Amazon.com. “The last mile” is a phrase that's normally associated with the telecommunications industry. It means that last bit of wire that's necessary to connect the customer to the provider. What we need for ending energy poverty are last-mile retailers that bring these clean energy products to the people. The kerosene and charcoal value chains already figured this out: those fuels are ubiquitous across the entire country. You can go to the most remote village in Haiti and you will find somebody selling kerosene and charcoal.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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energy poverty 8
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financial access 2
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Important Words


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