TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bakke,Gretchen Anna
TI  - The grid: the fraying wires between Americans and our energy future 
SN  - 9781632865687 (paperback)
AV  - TK 1005 B168g 2017
U1  - 333.793/2 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Electric power systems
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - United States
KW  - Sistemas de energía eléctrica
KW  - Innovaciones tecnológicas
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Electric power distribution
KW  - History
KW  - Distribución de energía eléctrica
KW  - Historia
KW  - Clean energy
KW  - Energía limpia
KW  - Electric power failures
KW  - Energy policy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Política energética
KW  - Aspectos sociales
N1  - Originally published in hardcover by Bloomsbury in 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; The Way of the Wind
How the Grid Got Its Wires
The Consolidation of Power
The Cardigan Path
Things Fall Apart
Two Birds, One Stone
A Tale of Two Storms
In Search of the Holy Grail
American Zeitgeist
Afterword: Contemplating Death in the Afternoon
N2  - "America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It's not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of basic repair. 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. If we hope to realize this future, we need to reimagine the grid according to twenty-first-century values. 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. And though it might not yet be obvious, this revolution is already well under way. Cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke unveils the many facets of America's energy infrastructure, its most dynamic moments and its most stable ones, and its essential role in personal and national life."--
ER  -