Power Grid Is Inefficient, Expensive and Vulnerable ; Nation, State Struggle to Forge Improvements
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If inventor Thomas A. Edison came back to life today, he might be amazed by such inventions as the cell phone and the Internet.
"But," one of New York's premier experts on electric power noted Wednesday, "if Thomas Edison were to come back to Earth today, he not only could recognize the power grid, he probably could repair it."See the full content of this document
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Power Grid Is Inefficient, Expensive and Vulnerable ; Nation, State Struggle to Forge Improvements
And that, said Robert B. Catell, chairman of the New York Smart Grid Consortium, is the problem.
A system so crucial to nearly every aspect of modern life has advanced very little in more than a century...See the full content of this document
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