Electrify - An Optimist's Playbook For Our Clean Energy Future

Electrify
English | 269 pages | epub | 6.46 MB

Description:
An optimistic-but realistic and feasible-action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.
Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now-but what? Proposed solutions seem either impossible or inadequate. In Electrify, Saul Griffith lays out a detailed action plan-optimistic but feasible-for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, have to stay and fight for the future. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible.
Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as…