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Superpower
One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Russel Gold | 2019
Award-winning journalist, Russel Gold tells Skelly’s story, which in many ways is the story of our nation’s evolving relationship with renewable energy. Gold illustrates how Skelly’s company, Clean Line Energy, conceived the idea for a new power grid that would allow sunlight where abundant to light up homes in the cloudy states thousands of miles away, and take wind from the Great Plains to keep air conditioners running in Atlanta. Thrilling, provocative, and important, Superpower is a fascinating look at America’s future.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Book Reviews
Superpower will appeal most to energy geeks and infrastructure wonks, but it deserves attention from a broader audience. We all pay for electricity, but most of us don’t really understand what we’re buying. We say we want cleaner energy, and we assume the technical issues involved are simple. Superpower shows that they aren’t—and that the social and political hurdles are even greater. – Loren Steffy, Texas Monthly
By narrowing his focus to a single project — an attempt to build an electricity transmission line from wind farms in Oklahoma to connect to the grid near Memphis, Tennessee — Gold is able to explore the realities of the business in much greater detail, and to give a more pragmatic view of both the promise and the pitfalls of renewable energy. – Ed Crooks, Financial Times
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About the Author
Russel Gold is an investigative business journalist at Texas Monthly.
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