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Modernizing the Electric Grid | Foundations & Frontiers | Contrary

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A deep dive into what it will take to modernize America's grid.

The electric grid is a mosaic of incredible feats of engineering. It is an elaborate web weaving together power from nuclear reactors, massive hydroelectric dams, and even solar farms into a network capable of powering our homes and charging our cars instantly and reliably. All this is easy to take for granted. When we first discovered how to use electricity, it was an open question as to how replenishing electric power should happen. One option, as we mentioned in The Challenge of Building Better Batteries , involved the use of battery men who would deliver weekly supplies of electric power l

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