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  • California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help

    California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help

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    Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sometime next summer, there’s a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California’s power grid will again be stretched to its limits. As the sun sets, solar panels will start generating less electricity even as temperatures remain high. Power plants that burn natural gas will fire up…