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Energy is following the path of computing
Centralized giants, disrupted by small, cheap, networked technology. Telephones, computers — and now electricity: the same story is…
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How Niagara Falls led to the first airplane
The world’s first large power plant at Niagara Falls solved a problem that, a few years later, helped…
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Edison, Insull, and Westinghouse: the war that built the grid
How a feud between Thomas Edison, his protege Sam Insull, and rival George Westinghouse created the electric utility…
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A letter from Bill Nussey on Earth Day 2022
I didn’t start out as an environmentalist. But I became one.