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The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s-1970s
Paul W Hirt
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Description for The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s-1970s
Hardcover. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the Pacific Northwest's first century of electification. Reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; THR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 885.
The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region’s first century of electrification, Paul Hirt’s new study reveals how the region’s citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible.
Hirt shows that every ... Read more
The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region’s first century of electrification, Paul Hirt’s new study reveals how the region’s citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible.
Hirt shows that every ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618736
SKU
V9780700618736
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Ref
99-25
About Paul W Hirt
Paul W. Hirt is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University, USA, where he is also a Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Global Institute of Sustainability. He is author of A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two and editor of Terra Pacifica: People and Place in Northwest America and Western Canada.
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