The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era
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- Jul 12, 2016
- #Energy #Technology
America’s electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It’s not just that the grid has grown old and is now in...
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Number of Pages: 288
ISBN: 1608196100
ISBN-13: 9781608196104
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Bill Gates @BillGates
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Dec 5, 2016
- Curated in My favorite books of 2016
This book, about our aging electrical grid, fits in one of my favorite genres: “Books About Mundane Stuff That Are Actually Fascinating.” Part of the reason I find this topic fascinating is because my first job, in high school, was writing software for the entity that controls the power grid in the Northwest. But 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 engineering wonders of the modern world. I think you would also come to see why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean-energy future.