Grid Bakke Gretchen Ph.D.
Grid Bakke Gretchen Ph.D. 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…
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Grid Bakke Gretchen Ph.D.
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. 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 not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of basic repair.
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 reimagine the grid according to twenty-first-century values. And though it might not yet be obvious, this revolution is already well