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Superpower : one man's quest to transform American energy / Russell Gold.

by Gold, Russell.

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Simon & Schuster, 2019.

333.794092 G618s

Skelly, Michael, 1961-

Energy industries -- United States -- Biography.

Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.

Energy policy -- United States.

9781501163586 (hc.)

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

319 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

No man's land -- E pluribus unum -- Braulio Carrillo -- Johnny Rotten -- E. 11th Street -- The battle of Blue Canyon -- A cure for insomnia -- "Tell me if I sound like a liberal" -- Clean line energy partners -- Euphoria -- Chickens and eggs -- Julie, Janey and Virgil -- A week from Hell -- This is not your ordinary transmission line -- An extremely compelling price -- Wind catcher -- The network.

"Russell Gold tells the story of Michael Skelly, the pioneer whose innovations, struggles, and persistence represent the groundbreaking changes underway in American energy. In Superpower, we meet Skelly's financial backers, a family that pivoted from oil exploration to renewable energy; the farmers ready to embrace the new cash crop; the landowners prepared to go to court to avoid looking at overhead wires; and utility executives who concoct fiendish ways to block renewable energy. Gold also shows how Skelly's innovative company, Clean Line Energy, conceived the idea for a new power grid that would allow sunlight where abundant to light up homes thousands of miles away in cloudy states, and take wind from the Great Plains to keep air conditioners running in Atlanta." --adapted from publisher's description.

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