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Jul 26, 2016 · "The Grid is a lucid and thought-provoking book." - Wall Street Journal "This book, about our aging electrical grid, fits in one of my favorite genres: 'Books About Mundane Stuff That Are Actually Fascinating.' . . . even if you have never given a moment's thought to how electricity reaches your outlets, I think this book would convince you that the electrical grid is one of the greatest ...
Jul 12, 2016 · The Grid by Gretchen Bakke explores the history, challenges, and future of the electrical grid that powers the US. It covers topics such as renewable energy, climate change, politics, and culture.
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- Gretchen Bakke
Jan 23, 2009 · In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the manufactured box, and the net. Charting the evolution of each grid, from the Paleolithic brick of ancient Mesopotamia through the virtual ...
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- Hannah B Higgins
- $31.39
- The MIT Press
Description. One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016. A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future. America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present.
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- Jul 11 2017
The Grid is a lucid and thought-provoking book. ― Wall Street Journal Bakke describes the grid as far more than towers and wires . . . She leads readers through a history of the grid and a maze of financial, legal, regulatory, and environmental considerations with sprightly good humor . . .
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- Gretchen Bakke
One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future.America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present.
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Nov 14, 2019 · The Grid was quite the epic, an intelligent speculative thriller that meshed edge of the seat action with thought provoking what if moments. It is a political multi layered tale that challenges the reader in all the good ways – a deceptively intuitive story that plays with the fear that privacy is no longer and takes that to the furthest extreme.
