The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke
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“@jorge_guajardo It’s an interesting book. | So, I read a bunch of books each year, and I’m going to start highlighting my top 5 favorites reads at the end of each year. So here it goes for 2021: #1: Layered Money by Nik Bhatia loved this book, it does an incredible job laying out how the existing financial system… | The Grid by Gretchen Bakke is a book about mundane stuff that is actually fascinating:”
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Technology, and Business.
A revelatory look at our national power gridhow it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fastapproaching energy future. 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 ...
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Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
“@jorge_guajardo It’s an interesting book. | So, I read a bunch of books each year, and I’m going to start highlighting my top 5 favorites reads at the end of each year. So here it goes for 2021: #1: Layered Money by Nik Bhatia loved this book, it does an incredible job laying out how the existing financial system… | The Grid by Gretchen Bakke is a book about mundane stuff that is actually fascinating:”
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