The grid : the fraying wires between Americans and our energy future /
Bakke, Gretchen Anna
The grid : the fraying wires between Americans and our energy future / Gretchen Bakke. - xxx, 352 páginas ; ilustraciones ; 24 cm :
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CHAPTER 1 The Way of the Wind CHAPTER 2 How the Grid Got Its Wires CHAPTER 3 The Consolidation of Power CHAPTER 4 The Cardigan Path CHAPTER 5 Things Fall Apart CHAPTER 6 Two Birds, One Stone CHAPTER 7 A Tale of Two Storms CHAPTER 8 In Search of the Holy Grail CHAPTER 9 American Zeitgeist .
The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. 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 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perceptive, and deeply researched fashion, cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke uses the history of an increasingly outdated infrastructure to show how the United States has gone from seemingly infinite technological prowess to a land of structural instability. She brings humor and a bright eye to contemporary solutions and to the often surprising ways in which these succeed or fail. And the consequences of failure are significant.
9781608196104
Sistemas de energía eléctrica--Innovaciones tecnológicas--Estados Unidos.
Distribución de energía eléctrica--Innovaciones tecnológicas--Estados Unidos.
Inteligencia artificial--Innovaciones tecnológicas--Estados Unidos
333.793 / B166g
The grid : the fraying wires between Americans and our energy future / Gretchen Bakke. - xxx, 352 páginas ; ilustraciones ; 24 cm :
Incluye índice.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
CHAPTER 1 The Way of the Wind CHAPTER 2 How the Grid Got Its Wires CHAPTER 3 The Consolidation of Power CHAPTER 4 The Cardigan Path CHAPTER 5 Things Fall Apart CHAPTER 6 Two Birds, One Stone CHAPTER 7 A Tale of Two Storms CHAPTER 8 In Search of the Holy Grail CHAPTER 9 American Zeitgeist .
The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. 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 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. She brings humor and a bright eye to contemporary solutions and to the often surprising ways in which these succeed or fail. And the consequences of failure are significant.
9781608196104
Sistemas de energía eléctrica--Innovaciones tecnológicas--Estados Unidos.
Distribución de energía eléctrica--Innovaciones tecnológicas--Estados Unidos.
Inteligencia artificial--Innovaciones tecnológicas--Estados Unidos
333.793 / B166g
