 Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means To You
ISBN: 978-0-470-10918-2
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306 pages
June 2007
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Acknowledgments.
Part One. The Worst-Case Scenario.
Chapter 1. Night of the Living Dead.
Chapter 2. The Production and Delivery Value Chain.
Chapter 3. Around the World, Around Town.
Chapter 4. Preventing the Worst Case.
Part Two. Insecurities, Vulnerabilities, and An Uneasy State of the Industry.
Chapter 5. Why a First-World Country Has a Third-World Grid.
Chapter 6. Living with a Transaction Economy.
Chapter 7. The Brain Drain.
Chapter 8. Environmental Imperatives.
Chapter 9. Houston, We Have a Problem.
Chapter 10. The Impact of Lengthening Supply Lines: How Elastic Are They?
Part Three. Fighting "The Last War," Planning the Next One.
Chapter 11. It's That '70s Show.
Chapter 12. Sticker Shock (Without the Sticker).
Chapter 13. Electricity Storage.
Chapter 14. Coal: Extracting Its Full Value.
Chapter 15. Exercising the Nuclear Option.
Chapter 16. Savvy Consumption, Empowering Ratepayers.
Chapter 17. Distributed Power.
Chapter 18. Redefining the Grid with Real Intelligence.
Chapter 19. The Rest of the World.
Chapter 20. A Vision For The Future: Daydream, Nightmare, or a Good Night's Rest?
Postscript: Personal Accountability.
Bibliography.
About the Author.
Index.
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