Electricity explains the world Meredith Angwin June 11, 2020
Electricity: Book endorsement and a movie Some wonderful people have written wonderful endorsements for my forthcoming book, Shorting the Grid. I'm sharing one endorsement today, and I plan to share other endorsements soon. Robert Bryce endorsement of my book Priscilla Agyapong is a research associate at the Center for Global Development. Clicking on JUICE THE MOVIE - INTERVIEW brings you to a 30 second video interview with her. In this interview, she asks why people think that Africa just needs a little solar power, while other parts of the world have reliable grids? This clip is from the movie Juice, How Electricity Explains the World released earlier this month. "What makes you think that an African's need for power is inferior to an American's need for power?" - Priscilla Atansah Poverty, women’s rights, climate change — indeed, most of the world’s most pressing challenges — can be explained by answering one question: Can you turn your lights on in the morning? Robert Bryce is the producer and narrator of Juice. Here is Bryce's endorsement of my upcoming book, Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid . "The modern world depends on a few essential networks: telephone, GPS, and of course, the World Wide Web. And all of those networks rely on the mother network: the electric grid. In Shorting the Grid, Meredith Angwin provides an enormously valuable, clear, and succinct explanation of our most important network. She shows how it works, why it’s vulnerable, and why we should be concerned about what she lyrically calls the "angelic miracle of the power grid.” If you care about the future of our increasingly electrified world, buy this book and read it." Robert Bryce, author of A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. Thank you to Robert Bryce! I recommend Bryce's movie
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