Four minutes of air conditioning

For five months of the year, temperatures in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, climb above 35 degrees Celsius. These temperatures are punishing for anyone, but particularly here, where air conditioning cannot offer any relief. While people in richer parts of the world can switch on their ACs, for billions in energy-poor countries, there is little electricity available to power a fan or an air conditioner. We can see this by comparing how much electricity people use at home on a typical day with how..