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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Resumen del Editor
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 an 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perceptive and deeply researched fashion, cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke uses the history of an increasingly outdated infrastructure to show how the United States has gone from seemingly infinite technological prowess to a land of structural instability.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.
Our national electrical grid grew during an era when monopoly, centralisation and standardisation meant strength. Yet as we've increasingly become a nation that caters to local needs, and as a plethora of new renewable energy sources comes online, our massive system is dangerously out of step.
Charting the history of our electrical grid, Bakke helps us see what we all take for granted, shows it as central to our culture and identity as a people and reveals it to be the linchpin in our aspirations for a clean-energy future.
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In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.
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A stupid and dangerously short sighted view
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- De: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
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Space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.
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The Boom
- How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
- De: Russell Gold
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of "fracking". Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country’s energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians.
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Somehow the author manages to stay balanced
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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- De: Craig R. Roach
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
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Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.
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decent, but ended up disappointing.
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De: Craig R. Roach
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
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The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
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De: William McDonough, y otros
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- De: Scott Huler
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
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In our daily lives, we're surrounded by wires, pipes, utility poles, cell phone towers, and myriad other infrastructure that facilitates almost everything we do. Even though these systems are essential, when was the last time you gave them much thought? In On the Grid, Scott Huler sets out to understand all of the systems that shape our society - from transportation, water, and garbage to the Internet coming through our cable lines.
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Amazing!
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De: Scott Huler
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Car Wars
- The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car
- De: John Fialka
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The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil-fueled car to seek something cleaner, simpler and cheaper. Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka documents the early days of the electric car, from the MIT/Caltech race between prototypes in the summer of 1968 to the 1987 victory of the Sunraycer in the world's first race featuring solar-powered cars.
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The Third Industrial Revolution
- How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
- De: Jeremy Rifkin
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Author Jeremy Rifkin presents an insider's account of the next great economic era: the Third Industrial Revolution, when a new ethic of sustainability will revolutionize the world we live in.
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Lamenting "The Third Industrial Revolution"
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De: Jeremy Rifkin
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China, Inc.
- De: Ted C. Fishman
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China today is visible everywhere: In the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred, and why it already affects us all.
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Just read the Amazon reviews befor buying it ...
- De Dan en 08-10-05
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Coal
- A Human History
- De: Barbara Freese
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The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history. Yet the mundane mineral that built our global economy, and even today powers our electrical plants, has also caused death, disease, and environmental destruction. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago and spans the globe.
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Uses Coal to push her Political Agenda
- De Kismet en 08-22-06
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Adapt
- Why Success Always Starts with Failure
- De: Tim Harford
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In this groundbreaking work, Tim Harford shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. Harford argues that today’s challenges simply cannot be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinions; the world has become far too unpredictable and profoundly complex. Instead, we must adapt. Deftly weaving together psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, physics, and economics, along with compelling stories of hard-won lessons learned in the field, Harford makes a passionate case for the importance of adaptive trial-and-error....
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Hidden Agenda
- De Lawrence en 05-20-13
De: Tim Harford
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society
- The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
- De: Jeremy Rifkin
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In this provocative new book, Rifkin argues that the coming together of the Communication Internet with the fledgling Energy Internet and Logistics Internet in a seamless twenty-first-century intelligent infrastructure—the Internet of Things—is boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing many goods and services is nearly zero, making them essentially free.
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Not a convincing argument-just stories & ideology
- De Pierre Parent en 07-26-17
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
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Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
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More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Grid
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- gail gillies
- 01-11-17
I didn't want to leave my car!
a very insightful book on how America came to have the power grid we do today and just how difficult it will be to improve and protect.
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- marathon085
- 03-29-21
Excellent Narration And Enjoyable
Gretchen Bakke gives us a peek into the electrical past, present and possible future of the power grid. She shows how most of us are vulnerable to inevitable blackouts, unaware of how really dependent we are on the grid. I'm really happy I bought this Audible book and highly recommend it if you're at all interested in how the electric grid affects us all around the world on a daily basis and have concerns about needed reforms.
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- Gerardo Orozco
- 02-16-22
Very informative and good technical and business reading
Great way to express the value of what connects us to our electricity.
My only two points of feedback are;
1. Explanation of electricity can use some work to make it more similar to other forms of energy like kinetic, thermal, etc.
2. Wireless as a future is not expanded and the efficiency of the transmission is quite low so it should not be mentioned and kept unexplained.
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- Diana
- 06-20-22
foundational knowledge
quite interesting history of the oft forgotten infrastructure that is the backbone of our everyday life
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- SamF.
- 03-08-24
Great Read
Made a complex industry understandable and enjoyable to learn about. Highly recommend.
Well written. Excellent conclusion.
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- JCarr 1
- 07-06-17
a must read
a must read for anyone trying to understand energy in today's society. this book carefully takes you through the history and mechanics of electrical power and looks towards the future for what is possible and what we need to get there. the performance was choppy in several sections, almost as if parts were re read after the fact, but still good overall.
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- Cory Balliet
- 09-08-20
very informative and detailed.
great prospective on the problems with the world's electrical grids put in terms that even non-technical minds can understand and appreciate. highly recommend listening if you want to understand the big picture surrounding how electricity makes its way to your house, and how renewable energy is as much of a challenge to our energy future as it is a necessity.
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- XeDr
- 08-11-19
a valiant effort
the author gives a fresh perspective on systems and infrastructures we take for granted, and the book is well worth a listen for that reason alone. yet the work suffers from the author's failure to understand (and indeed a certainty that no one could fully understand) the technical side of things. many of the glibly stated "facts" and conclusions are simplified and potentially misleading, yet the book does open the readers' eyes to dangers of the path we're on
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- D P Chang
- 08-06-19
narrator pronunciation issue
the pronunciation of ‘marin county’ and some other things was distracting. one would think that an editor/producer/someone would catch this before release.
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- Donald R Edmonston
- 10-07-21
A good subject that author covers well.
Big expansive story which is part history, part science, part sociology, part prediction. I'd like to see it updated to 2021.
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