Rebuilding the Electricity Grid


	Rebuilding the Electricity Grid

Andrew Gillies

11-10-2008 9:35 AM

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Andrew Gillies says:

Pair my colleague Andy Stone's story with Al Gore's op-ed in the New York Times this weekend. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html?ref=opinion . There, Gore calls for "the planning and construction of a unified national smart grid for the transport of renewable electricity from the rural places where it is mostly generated to the cities where it is mostly used." Stone's story fleshes out the matter.

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