Julianne Couch

Traveling the Power Line (eBook, ePUB)

From the Mojave Desert to the Bay of Fundy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In our power-hungry world, all the talk about energy-what's safe and what's risky, what's clean and what's dirty, what's cheap and what's easy-tends to generate more heat than light. What, Julianne Couch wanted to know, is the real story on power production in this country? Approaching the question as a curious consumer, Couch takes us along as she visits nine sites where electrical power is developed from different fuel sources. From a geothermal plant in the Mojave Desert to a nuclear plant in Nebraska, from a Wyoming coal-fired power plant to a Maine tidal-power project, Couch gives us an insider's look at how power is generated, how it affects neighboring landscapes and the people who live and work there, and how each source comes with its own unique complications. The result is an informed, evenhanded discussion of energy production and consumption on the global, national, regional, local, and-most important-personal level. Knowledge is the real power this book imparts, allowing each of us to think beyond the flip of a switch to the real consequences of our energy use.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803248861
• Artikelnr.: 55281490

Autorenporträt

Julianne Couch is an independent journalist and essayist. She is the author of Jukeboxes and Jackalopes: A Wyoming Bar Journey and Waking Up Western: Collected Essays.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Of Megawatts and Meadowlarks: A Wyoming Wind Farm
2. Angels and Monsters: A Wyoming Coal-Fired Power Plant
3. Fission and Fishing: A Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant
4. Solids, Liquids, and Gases: A Texas Gas Field
5. Homegrown Revolution: An Iowa Biomass Research Facility
6. Journey a Little Way into the Earth: A Utah Geothermal Plant
7. Water, Water, Everywhere: A Kentucky Hydropower Plant
8. Don't Let the Sun Go Down . . . without Capturing Its Energy: A Nevada
Solar-Thermal Power Plant
9. Harnessing the Moon: A Maine Tidal Power Project
Afterword
A Note on Sources