
The Grid and the Village : Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster PDF
by Doheny-Farina Stephen Doheny-Farina
Description
Doheny-Farina begins by discussing the disaster and tracing the origins of the storm. He then goes back two hundred years to tell how this particular electric grid was built, showing us the sacrifices people made to create the grids that (usually) connect us to one another. Today’s power grid, says Doheny-Farina, has become more vulnerable than we realize, as demand begins to outstrip capacity in urban centers around the nation. His book reminds us what those grids meanboth positively and negativelyto our electronically saturated lives.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780300133820