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  • The Last Dark Sky
    Douglas Donovan
    It is midnight in Las Vegas, and a beam of light powerful enough to be seen from space is shooting straight up into the desert sky - drawing insects by the hundreds of thousands, and the bats that feed on them, into an ecosystem that exists for no reason other than that we built a light and pointed it upward. A continent away, an astronomer is waiting patiently for photons that...
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    11,55 €

  • The Big Electric Journey
    Donovan Douglas
    When a child turns on a lamp, it can seem as though electricity simply appears.The power grid reveals the much bigger story. Electricity can be generated in many different ways and at many different locations. High-voltage transmission systems move electrical energy efficiently over long distances. Substations and transformers change voltage as electricity moves between differe...
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    8,69 €

  • The Machine That Moves Electricity
    Douglas Donovan
    Flip a switch, and light appears. Behind that simple act sits a machine most Americans have never consciously seen and could not name if asked: the power transformer. It is the device that made Thomas Edison’s direct-current dream obsolete within a decade, the device that let a single power plant at Niagara Falls light cities two hundred miles away, and the device now sitting a...
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    12,91 €

  • The Reliability Frontier
    Douglas Donovan
    America’s electric grid is undergoing its most consequential transformation since rural electrification-and this time, the driving force is artificial intelligence.In THE RELIABILITY FRONTIER, Douglas Donovan traces how coal, natural gas, and nuclear power continue to anchor a system now being reshaped by explosive solar and wind growth, the sudden rise of utility-scale battery...
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    15,98 €

  • The Quantum Revolution
    Douglas Donovan
    The future of computing is here-and it will change everything.We stand at the threshold of the quantum age, where computers harness the bizarre properties of quantum mechanics to solve problems that would take classical computers longer than the age of the universe. From revolutionizing drug discovery to optimizing global supply chains, quantum computers promise to transform in...
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    15,41 €

  • Busted! The Real Stories Behind America’s Biggest Historical Lies
    Donovan Douglas
    Everything you learned in history class was wrong.Think George Washington chopped down a cherry tree and couldn’t tell a lie? Nope.Believe Ben Franklin discovered electricity with a kite? Think again.Sure that Washington was America’s first president? Not exactly.Welcome to the most entertaining history lesson you’ll ever get. Busted! takes a wrecking ball to America’s most che...
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    13,11 €

  • A History of the United States Electric Grid
    Douglas Donovan
    From Edison’s First Light Bulb to Today’s Smart GridDiscover the extraordinary story behind the infrastructure that powers modern America in this comprehensive exploration of the United States electrical grid. From Thomas Edison’s pioneering Pearl Street Station in 1882 to today’s interconnected network spanning over 160,000 miles of transmission lines, this book traces the rem...
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    15,75 €