• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: Lights out : the electricity crisis, the global economy, and what it means to you
  • Enthält: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The worst-case scenario -- Night of the living dead -- The production and delivery value chain -- Around the world, around town -- Preventing the worst case -- Insecurities, vulnerabilities, and an uneasy state of the industry -- Why a first-world country has a third-world grid -- Living with a transaction economy -- The brain drain -- Environmental imperatives -- Houston, we have a problem -- The impact of lengthening supply lines : how elastic are they? -- Fighting "the last war," planning the next one -- It's that '70s show -- Sticker shock (without the sticker) -- Electricity storage -- Coal : extracting its full value -- Exercising the nuclear option -- Savvy consumption, empowering ratepayers -- Distributed power -- Redefining the grid with real intelligence -- The rest of the world -- A vision for the future: daydream, nightmare, or a good night's rest? -- Postscript: personal accountability -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Index
  • Beteiligte: Makansi, Jason [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, 2007
  • Umfang: XIII, 306 S.; Ill., graph. Darst
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 0470109181; 9780470109182
  • RVK-Notation: QR 530 : Allgemeines
  • Schlagwörter: USA > Elektrizitätsversorgung > Energiekrise
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289) and index

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