Please try again.There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. 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 grinding halt.The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.In an entertaining, perceptive and deeply researched fashion, cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke uses the history of an increasingly outdated infrastructure to show how the United States has gone from seemingly infinite technological prowess to a land of structural instability.

-- Jeff Goodell * contributing editor Rolling Stone, author of BIG COAL * Gretchen Bakke dives deep into the history of the electric power grid . . This book tells the compelling story of the invention that has powered the American economy unlike any other, and which was named by the National Academy of Engineering as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. -- Paul Roberts, author of THE END OF OIL and THE IMPULSE SOCIETY If you want to keep your lights on, read The Grid. The book deals in fallacies and is not as well researched as you'd hope, based on her background.The Grid: more than just generators, wires and poles,Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016.A PhD in cultural anthropology might seem like an odd background for someone writing a book about our national electricity grid.
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Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Yet as we've increasingly become a nation that caters to local needs, and as a plethora of new renewable energy sources comes online, our massive system is dangerously out of step.Charting the history of our electrical grid, Bakke helps us see what we all take for granted, shows it as central to our culture and identity as a people and reveals it to be the linchpin in our aspirations for a clean-energy future.Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. -- Rye Barcott, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Double Time Capital, a clean energy investment firm.Gretchen Bakke holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Cultural Anthropology. Share your PDF documents easily on DropPDF. She brings humor and a bright eye to contemporary solutions and to the often surprising ways in which these succeed or fail. Thumbnails Document Outline Attachments. It's a journey through the nervous system of the modern world, one with profound implications for climate change, national security, and ensuring America's well-lit future. . chat tools) that might be of interest to you. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. . . NOOK Book. But Gretchen Bakke sees the grid as more than just generating plants, transmission towers, wires, substations, poles, meters, outlets and cords. . .

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