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10 edition of The Grid found in the catalog.

The Grid

A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World

by Phillip F. Schewe

  • 5 Want to read
  • 16 Currently reading

Published by Joseph Henry Press .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Electrical engineering,
  • Technology,
  • Technology & Industrial Arts,
  • Science/Mathematics,
  • Electricity,
  • History,
  • Technology: General Issues,
  • Engineering - Electrical & Electronic,
  • Engineering - General,
  • Electric power distribution,
  • Electric power production,
  • Interconnected electric utility systems

  • The Physical Object
    FormatHardcover
    Number of Pages320
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL9496667M
    ISBN 10030910260X
    ISBN 109780309102605

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Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual The Grid book in Western culture. Emblematic of modernityCited by: Jul 12,  · The grid is a well-done book on a topic that is not sexy.

The Grid book maintenance and refiguring of the grid for newer alternative energy sources that aren't steady and reliable like fossil fuels but are unlimited and less hostage to the fortunes of foreign affairs.

In addition to refiguring to new sources of power the grid is aging and falling apart/5. Jul 26,  · About The Grid. One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 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. Jul 11,  · "This book, about our aging electrical grid, fits in one of my favorite genres: 'Books About Mundane Stuff That Are Actually Fascinating.' 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 Brand: Bloomsbury USA.

In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger. A primer on the challenges facing a power industry in transition.

Electricity is like no other commodity. Because there is still no way to store it on a large scale, the electricity we draw from the grid must be produced at that very healthtechdays.com: Gretchen Bakke. Aug 22,  · Aging And Unstable, The Nation's Electrical Grid Is 'The Weakest Link' August 22, • In her new book, The Grid, Gretchen Bakke argues that the under-funded power grid Author: Gretchen Bakke.

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It's Time To Get Better. The US grid is really three grids: one for the Western side of the country, one for the Eastern side and a smaller one for Texas alone. At least 70% of the grid’s transmission lines and transformers are 25 years old, and the average age of US power plants is The United States has more outages than any other developed country.9/10().

Jul 26,  · The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke “The Grid” is an insightful yet verbose book on America’s grid technology; it’s history together with the laws, people and logic that brought it into existence/5(3).

In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the manufactured box, and the net.

Charting the evolution of each grid, from the Paleolithic brick of ancient Mesopotamia through the virtual 4/5(1). Grid Book helps me see life as one big grid, because everything you do has a rhythm, and your amount of success depends on the tempo of your grind.

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Grid Books is a publisher of poetry and other editions foregrounding creative work that springs from the margins. We seek a variety of perspectives expressed in creative and collaborative formats, including poetry, scholarly editions, and projects encompassing oral history.

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Although I live in South Africa there are many lessons to lean on and similarities in the story of the American grid and the current state thereof and our own grid.

Grid Books. There are presently no open calls for submissions. Off the Grid Poetry Prize: This year's prize will be judged by Jon Davis, author of the poetry collections Preliminary Report, Scrimmage of Appetite, and Improbable Creatures, which won the Off the Grid Poetry Prize.

The Off tHe Grid Prize. Founded in the fall of to provide a forum for older poets, who are sometimes overlooked by the current marketplace. We are looking for work by poets over sixty, ripened in craft and vision, and sufficiently sprightly to promote their work through readings and networks.

Praise for The Grid “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.

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