![]() ![]() ![]() Read this post to learn more about microgridsīig, melancholy news: Next week will be my last week co-hosting How to Save a Planet.Read this report on grid resilience in the transition to renewables.Read this article on the War of the Currents between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.Check out the Edison Tech Center’s tour through the history of light. ![]() Check out Gretchen Bakke’s book The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and our Energy Future – here’s an excerpt.Let your legislators know that you think it’s important! Visit for more information and a script to help you with the call. The infrastructure bill has $73 billion proposed to update our electricity grid so that it will be ready for more renewable energy.Guests: Gretchen Bakke, anthropologist and author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and our Energy Future In this episode we talk with anthropologist Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and our Energy Future, about how we got our grid, and how we get a better one. Not just the wires and technology that make up the grid, but also the people and institutions that run it. So, what’s standing in the way of using more of these renewable energies? One of the biggest barriers is something all around us that we rarely notice – our electricity grid. Wind and solar are now some of the cheapest ways to make electricity.
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