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About Power: How to Democratize Electricity Now
“The world is in crisis over Climate Chaos and multi-dimensional inequities. About Power shows how the electric utility industry contributes to this crisis, and how delivering electric utility services properly could instead provide solutions.”
–Mark Ritchie, former Minnesota Secretary of State & Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army
A primary reason we have accelerating Climate Chaos and profound societal inequity is that society delivers electric utility services upside down and backwards. On the demand-side, electric utilities are financially healthier when they emit more pollution, while conservation reduces their earnings. On the supply-side, big, very expensive power lines get built to accommodate large, remote wind and solar developments from the top down, instead of first developing strategically sized community-based renewable energy projects that require little or no new transmission infrastructure.
About Power makes the case that society’s major problems can be reduced, if not solved, with proper energy management, and why, emphatically, nuclear power is not part of the solution. When we get energy right, we’ll have the energy to get the rest of it right. About Power provided an historical context that sheds light on why society gets energy management so terribly wrong, and offers direction about correcting the flaws.
–Mark Ritchie, former Minnesota Secretary of State & Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army
A primary reason we have accelerating Climate Chaos and profound societal inequity is that society delivers electric utility services upside down and backwards. On the demand-side, electric utilities are financially healthier when they emit more pollution, while conservation reduces their earnings. On the supply-side, big, very expensive power lines get built to accommodate large, remote wind and solar developments from the top down, instead of first developing strategically sized community-based renewable energy projects that require little or no new transmission infrastructure.
About Power makes the case that society’s major problems can be reduced, if not solved, with proper energy management, and why, emphatically, nuclear power is not part of the solution. When we get energy right, we’ll have the energy to get the rest of it right. About Power provided an historical context that sheds light on why society gets energy management so terribly wrong, and offers direction about correcting the flaws.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 11, 2024
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October 27, 2026
Energy is fundamental to society, yet it is invisible. Hard to get a handle on energy, electricity, or power when it can’t be touched or doesn’t come in the latest color or style. The author tells us that when we are able to successfully chart the course of our energy future (by learning about where energy comes from and having a say in energy decisions impacting you and your community), then we’ll have the energy to get the rest of society right. Knowing things about energy, like where it is made, how it is made, by products of its creation (spoiler, pollution) and about The Grid (aka the largest machine in the world) makes us ask why we were not taught about the energy utility system in school? This book is the inside scoop on what motivates electric utilities to behave as they do. This is the story of what was, what can be, and how normal people can learn the secret language and organize for a clean energy future, less pollution, and economic freedom. Sounds too good to be true? The author may make you a believer in the pages of a his book.
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