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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I have written blog posts about how electricity frees women to make choices. I was happy to see women's empowerment is a theme of Bryce's movie, Juice. The movie includes interviews with people in India, Puerto Rico, Iceland, Lebanon and more. As you can tell, I recommend it. You can buy or stream the movie on Amazon, as well as through several other services, such as iTunes. (It is important to note that I get no payments whatsoever for encouraging people to buy the movie.) Grid Book News Hmmm. I have linked to Bryce's movie, but how do you buy my forthcoming book, Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid? With any luck, sometime next month I will be able to let you know how to order a copy of my book. I expect Shorting will be released in early August. I am tremendously pleased with the response of the people whom I asked for endorsements. I am eager to get Shorting out there where it can be read, enjoyed, and attacked. To all my readers: Take care. Be well. More later.
Meredith Angwin
Website: http://www.meredithangwin.com/ 68 Passumpsic Avenue, P O Box 741, Wilder, VT 05088
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