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Author |
: Saul Griffith |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262367271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262367270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Electrify by : Saul Griffith
An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to twenty-five million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.
Author |
: Jill Jonnes |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2004-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375758843 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375758844 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empires of Light by : Jill Jonnes
The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation’s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world’s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it. Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.
Author |
: David E. Nye |
Publisher |
: MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages |
: 504 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105002519564 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Electrifying America by : David E. Nye
Explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture, becoming fundamental to modern life.
Author |
: Thomas Parke Hughes |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 1993-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801846145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801846144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Networks of Power by : Thomas Parke Hughes
Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
Author |
: Bill Moyer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2016-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 099809630X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780998096308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Solutionary Rail by : Bill Moyer
The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Author |
: Pami Aalto |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2021-08-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780128221433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0128221437 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Electrification by : Pami Aalto
Electrification: Accelerating the Energy Transition offers a widely applicable framework to delineate context-sensitive pathways by which this transition can be accelerated and lists the types of processes and structures that may hinder progress towards this goal. The framework draws insights from well-established literature, ranging from technological studies to socio-technical studies of energy transitions, on to strategic niche management approaches, (international) political economy approaches, and institutionalist literatures, while also adopting wider social theoretical ideas from structuration theory. Contributors discuss a multitude of case studies drawn from global examples of electrification projects. Brief case studies and text boxes help users further understand this domain and the technological, infrastructural and societal structures that may exercise significant powers. Proposes a globally applicable, inclusive framework linking together several literatures of energy transition research (ranging from the social sciences to law and engineering) Assesses the regional and national applicability of solutions, covering the societal structures and interests that shape the prospects of their implementation Extends the analysis from technological and infrastructural solutions to the policies required to accelerate transition Introduces several country level case studies, thus demonstrating how to harness niches of innovation, kick-start the adoption of a solution, and make it mainstream
Author |
: Michael Eigen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2018-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429920561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429920563 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Electrified Tightrope by : Michael Eigen
This book examines the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. It emphasizes positive contributions to growth of self made by seemingly pathological or disruptive movements within the therapy situation.
Author |
: Saul Griffith |
Publisher |
: Black Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2022-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781743822371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1743822375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Big Switch by : Saul Griffith
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia’s energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now – but what? Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In The Big Switch, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint – optimistic but feasible – for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. ‘I’m a scientist, inventor and father who wants to leave my kids a better world. The data convinces me that it is still rational to have hope.’ —Saul Griffith 'About f*cking time we have an actual plan written down that can be executed and financed. In a decarbonised world, Australia is a winner. The opportunity now is ours for the taking.' -Mike Cannon-Brookes 'Griffth argues that electrification is the path forward to mitigate climate change while creating jobs.' -Rose Mary Petrass, The Fifth Estate '...an engaging, optimistic, and persuasive perspective on the huge opportunities in front of us.' -Benjamin Powell, Westender Community News
Author |
: Jonathan Coopersmith |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 429 |
Release |
: 2016-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501705366 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501705369 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 by : Jonathan Coopersmith
The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods to examine a crucial element in the modernization of Russia. Coopersmith shows how the Communist Party forged an alliance with engineers to harness the socially transformative power of this science-based enterprise. A centralized plan of electrification triumphed, to the benefit of the Communist Party and the detriment of local governments and the electrical engineers. Coopersmith’s narrative of how this came to be elucidates the deep-seated and chronic conflict between the utopianism of Soviet ideology and the reality of Soviet politics and economics.
Author |
: Richard Dawkins |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2021-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473579491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147357949X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Books do Furnish a Life by : Richard Dawkins
'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley 'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on Earth.' - Mark Cocker, Spectator 'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator. Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins' forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins' own remarkable canon of work. Plenty of other scientists write well, but no one writes like Dawkins... here is Dawkins the teacher, the scholar, the polemicist, the joker, the aesthete, the poet, the satirist, the man of compassion as well as indignation, the slayer of superstition and, above all, the scientist. - Areo Magazine