Putting the "Fun" Back in "Infrastructure": The Electric System and the Future of Energy
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Electricity just happens. Flip a switch, and the lights turn on. The system is reliable enough and invisible enough that it’s easy to spend your entire life not knowing how it works, even though you use it every day. But in an age of limited resources and climate change, ignoring our electric infrastructure is a luxury we can no longer afford. The good news: Infrastructure is fascinating.
Presenter: Maggie Koerth-Baker, Science Editor, BoingBoing.net and author of Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before it Conquers Us
Koerth-Baker explains how our flawed and surprisingly precarious electric system evolved, how it controls what we can and can’t do to solve our energy crisis today, and what we can learn about the future of energy by studying its past.
Clean Energy Resource Teams