This is cool:
While other buildings that house vital services — hospitals, local government emergency centers, radio and television stations — remained functional during the blackout thanks only to backup power generators, one New York City Police precinct in Manhattan wasn’t even fazed by the sudden electrical disruption.
“We weren’t affected by the blackout at all,” says Dave Giordano, a community affairs officer at the Central Park Precinct in Manhattan. “We were still shining.”
The secret to staying powered up throughout the blackout? For the past four years, the precinct has been generating its own power with a clean-energy fuel cell.