Author: United States. Federal Power Commission
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Northeast Power Faliure, Nov 9and 10, 1965 a Report to the President ... Dec 6, 1965
Author: United States. Federal Power Commission
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Report
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2688
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2688
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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The Grid
Author: Julie A Cohn
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262343797
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure. The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the miracle of electrification. In this book, Julie Cohn tells the history of the grid, from early linkages in the 1890s through the grid's maturity as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s. She focuses on the strategies and technologies used to control power on the grid—in fact made up of four major networks of interconnected power systems—paying particular attention to the work of engineers and system operators who handled the everyday operations. To do so, she consulted sources that range from the pages of historical trade journals to corporate archives to the papers of her father, Nathan Cohn, who worked in the industry from 1927 to 1989—roughly the period of key power control innovations across North America. Cohn investigates major challenges and major breakthroughs but also the hidden aspects of our electricity infrastructure, both technical and human. She describes the origins of the grid and the growth of interconnection; emerging control issues, including difficulties in matching generation and demand on linked systems; collaboration and competition against the backdrop of economic depression and government infrastructure investment; the effects of World War II on electrification; postwar plans for a coast-to-coast grid; the northeast blackout of 1965 and the East-West closure of 1967; and renewed efforts at achieving stability and reliability after those two events.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262343797
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure. The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the miracle of electrification. In this book, Julie Cohn tells the history of the grid, from early linkages in the 1890s through the grid's maturity as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s. She focuses on the strategies and technologies used to control power on the grid—in fact made up of four major networks of interconnected power systems—paying particular attention to the work of engineers and system operators who handled the everyday operations. To do so, she consulted sources that range from the pages of historical trade journals to corporate archives to the papers of her father, Nathan Cohn, who worked in the industry from 1927 to 1989—roughly the period of key power control innovations across North America. Cohn investigates major challenges and major breakthroughs but also the hidden aspects of our electricity infrastructure, both technical and human. She describes the origins of the grid and the growth of interconnection; emerging control issues, including difficulties in matching generation and demand on linked systems; collaboration and competition against the backdrop of economic depression and government infrastructure investment; the effects of World War II on electrification; postwar plans for a coast-to-coast grid; the northeast blackout of 1965 and the East-West closure of 1967; and renewed efforts at achieving stability and reliability after those two events.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
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Publications and staff reports listing - Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Author: United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Office of Congressional and Public Affairs
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Brilliant
Author: Jane Brox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547487150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547487150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Water Pollution - 1969, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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