From Edison to Enron The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity

Name: From Edison to Enron The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity
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ISBN: 9780313361869

ISBN-10: 031336186X

ISBN-13: 9780313361869

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Authors: Richard Munson

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The blackout of 2003 illuminated just how dependent America is on electricity. It was not just that some 50 million people in eight states and Ontario were cut off from their Televisions, microwaves, ATMs, and email. Without the electrical juice needed to keep their sockets alive, factory managers were forced to close production lines, city managers shut down water deliveries, grocery store clerks watched their frozen inventory slowly melt away. Economists estimated that the blackout cost Americans $5 billion even as energy analysts were predicting that a similar blackout could happen again. The catastrophe forced us to marvel at the unusual ability of sub-microscopic particles to move like…

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List price: $27.00
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 9/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Richard Munson is the author of "From Edison to Enron," a history of the electricity industry; "The Cardinals of Capitol Hill," a behind-the-scenes look at congressional appropriators; and "Cousteau: The Captain and His World," a biography of the undersea explorer.