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The Mascots of Electricity Demand: Power Rock, Reddy Kilowatt, and Selling the Energy-Intensive Lifestyle
The coal-industry lobbying group, Families Organized to Represent the Coal Economy, has released a kids’ coloring book starring Power Rock (“POWER ROCK!”) and his sidekick, Squirt. Yes, it’s as weird as it sounds, but it’s not unprecedented.
Joel Eisen (@joeleisen), University of Richmond law professor, pointed out to me that it is really just “Reddy Kilowatt [...]
Dickens on Steamboat Travel in 1841
Dickens made a trip from Pittsburgh down past Louisville to the Mississippi on the Ohio River, which he recorded in evocative detail in his American Notes. Granted, he sounds like a bit of pansie, but his descriptions of the danger of the ships is fascinating. The furnace and all its machinery were open to the [...]
The Middle Ages of the Electric Utility Industry
The utility industry has been in decline for half a century, according to a mid-80s book by a Merril Lynch analyst, Leonard S. Hyman.
In America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present, and Future (which, now would be distant past, past, and recent past, of course) Leonard S. Hyman lays out a narrative for America’s electric utilities that [...]
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