John Katsoudas [ 21 DEC 2016 | Energy Security ] We all know that burning gasoline for transportation contributes significantly to an oncoming global calamity – climate change. We also know that switching to electric vehicles – or EVs –
The Fraying Grid
Gretchen Bakke [ 12 NOV 2016 | Energy Security ] Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, joins David to discuss her book “The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future”
Graphene
Shou-En Zhu [ 19 MAR 2015 | Energy Security | 15:47 ] Nano materials and nanostructures exist everywhere in our natural world. Take a look at the wing of a dragonfly. If we zoom in 100,000 times and look
Microgrids
Gretchen Bakke [ 23 May 2013 | Urban Design | 12:37 ] Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, McGill University. Since about 2008 there has been a groundswell of intervention in the workings of what we now call
Grid Level Bug
Donald Sadowy [ 26 MAR 2012 | Energy Security ] The electricity powering the lights in this theater was generated just moments ago. Because the way things stand today, electricity demand must be in constant balance with electricity supply. If