The grid the fraying wires between Americans and our energy future
"The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a gri...
| Main Author: | Bakke, Gretchen Anna (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The way of the wind
- How the grid got its wires
- The consolidation of power
- The cardigan path
- Things fall apart
- Two birds, one stone
- A tale of two storms
- In search of the Holy Grail
- American zeitgeist
- Afterword: Contemplating death in the afternoon.