SCIENCE

Climate Change and the Electric Power Grid

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1
Episode
21
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With the race on to reduce global warming and fossil fuel dependency, experts in alternative energy see a bright future for renewable resources like wind, solar, hydro-power and geothermal energy. But getting it onto the electrical grid to power homes and businesses is a major challenge that engineers and environmentalists are wrestling with. Find out how the United States is envisioning the "Smart Grid" of the future and how it might be improved to more cleanly and efficiently keep the lights on around the world. Photographer Harold Davis combines his loves of the natural world with modern digital photography to create images that show the ordinary in an extra-ordinary way.

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