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A behind-the-scenes expose relating why our electricity system is headed for a state of emergency--and what can be done to head it off. Most people don't realize that skyrocketing global energy demand and economic growth severely affect the supply of electricity. Between production (power plants) and delivery is an antiquated, "third-world" transmission grid that is in desperate need of hardening against breakdowns, terrorist attacks, inadequate carrying...
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When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. As technological advancements allowed for an increasing physical distance between power...
5) Reaping the wind: how mechanical wizards, visionaries, and profiteers helped shape our energy future
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"In Reaping the Wind, journalist Peter Asmus tells the history of commercial wind power in the United States. He introduces readers to maverick scientists and technologists who labored in obscurity, to entrepreneurs and visionary capitalists who believed that a centuries old idea could be made feasible in the modern world, and to enterprising financial advisers and investors who sought to exploit the last great tax shelter in federal history." "Reaping...
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Written to educate new engineers about the business environment, this book explains how new methods of power systems operations and energy marketing relate to public policy, regulation, economics, and engineering science. It examines technologies and techniques currently in use and provides a foundation for understanding the coming era of unbundling, open access, power marketing, self-generation, and regional transmission operations. The book can...
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Traditionally protected as monopolies, electric utilities are now being caught in the fervor of deregulation that is sweeping the country. Nearly 40 states have enacted or are considering laws and regulations that will profoundly alter the way the electric utility industry is governed. Concerned citizens are beginning to ponder the environmental implications of such a change, and while many fear that the pressure of competition will exacerbate environmental...
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The development of the electricity supply industry in France, Britain and the US during the so-called 'Golden Age' is the dominant concern of this book. Chick focuses on security, pricing, investment, forms of ownership and industrial market structure, and the development of the European Coal and Steel Community.
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The California energy crisis is not simply about a lack of electricity. It is about who owns the production and distribution of that electricity. As state after state agrees to deregulation, the utility industry is approaching a concentration not seen since the Power Trust of the 1930s. Seeing the Light urges us to change the rules now and create a future that includes affordable, locally owned electricity. The book chonicles hopeful new developments...
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Nikola Tesla electrified the world, but his bizarre vision of the future branded him as a mad scientist. A century ago, Tesla created energy-efficient light bulbs, foresaw today's oil consumption issues, and the need for alternative energies like geothermal and solar power. Can the keys to a brighter future be found in the long neglected writings of this discredited genius?
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"This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture. Ranging across a vast array of materials, Halliday shows how electricity functioned as both a means of representing "other" things - from love and solidarity to embodiment and temporality - and as an object of representation in its own right. As well as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James, the book considers other major American writers...
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A biography of Benjamin Franklin viewed through the lens of his scientific inquiry and its ramifications for American democracy. Today we think of Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklin's day it was otherwise--long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work, especially his experiments with lightning and electricity. Pulitzer Prize finalist Dray uses the...
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