The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DM9Q6CQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 411 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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For the past decade she has been researching and writing about the changing culture of electricity in the United States. from the University of Chicago in Cultural Anthropology. She is a former fellow in Wesleyan University's Science in Society Program, a former Fulbright fellow, and is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at McGill University. Born in Portland, Orego
Book Shark said Insightful but Verbose. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke“The Grid” is an insightful yet verbose book on America’s grid technology; it’s history together with the laws, people and logic that brought it into existence. Author Gretchen Bakke holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and is currently a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada brings us this seldom told story of the evolution of an essential infrastructure. This interesting Insightful but Verbose The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke“The Grid” is an insightful yet verbose book on America’s grid technology; it’s history together with the laws, people and logic that brought it into existence. Author Gretchen Bakke holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and is currently a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada brings us this seldom told story of the evolution of an essential infrastructure. This interesting 36Insightful but Verbose Book Shark The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke“The Grid” is an insightful yet verbose book on America’s grid technology; it’s history together with the laws, people and logic that brought it into existence. Author Gretchen Bakke holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and is currently a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada brings us this seldom told story of the evolution of an essential infrastructure. This interesting 364-page book includes. -page book includes. 6Insightful but Verbose Book Shark The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke“The Grid” is an insightful yet verbose book on America’s grid technology; it’s history together with the laws, people and logic that brought it into existence. Author Gretchen Bakke holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and is currently a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada brings us this seldom told story of the evolution of an essential infrastructure. This interesting 364-page book includes. -page book includes. Steelblue said Don't Miss This. I suspect that most people will read this title and say that will be way too technical for me. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ms Bakke does a spectacular job of making the complex eminently understandable. Don't pass this one by because you don't think you'll understand. You should know about this.. MyViewPoint said Good overview of electricity's role in America. Author presented historical events to describe how our existing GRID came to pass (and occasionally fail). The current Grid needs to concern us all with Utilities desperately trying to make their business model work. Author discusses legislative influence at both state and federal levels. Discussed new technology impact (wind, solar, and electric-cars with battery potential - no pun intended). Several 'green' projects in the US are discussed. What worked what failed - the author presented an insightful analysis. In the end,
"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 Finally, Bakke sketches a possible design of the ‘intelligent grid’ of the future A lively analysis." - Kirkus Reviews"Hopefully, Bakke’s startling exposé revealing how electricity sloshes around the country across a precarious grid will be a wake-up call." - Booklist"Gretchen Bakke shows that everything is, indeed, connected. If we want a cleaner energy future, we're going to need a smarter grid." - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION"A remarkable achievement. This is a smart, deeply reported, poetic book about how electricity moves through our lives (and why it sometimes doesn’t). Bakke deftly shows us how a system most of us
Today, as we invest great hope in new energy sources--solar, wind, and other alternatives--the grid is what stands most firmly in the way of a brighter energy future. It's a project which forces visionaries to work with bureaucrats, legislators with storm-flattened communities, moneymen with hippies, and the left with the right. If we hope to realize this future, we need to re-imagine the grid according to twenty-first-century values. It's not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of basic repair. America's electrical