<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-elaborate-building-with-domed-roof-brightly-lit-at-night.jpg?id=67825102&amp;width=1245&amp;height=700&amp;coordinates=0%2C187%2C0%2C188" /><br /><br /><p><strong>It’s 6 a.m. on a cold</strong> January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week, the power goes out. No lights, no m