Redefining the Grid

America’s main source of power for electricity comes from fossil fuels.  Lagging the in back is hydro, nuclear, solar, wind, natural gas and biomass power stations.  We, as environmentalists, know that the situation with power being harvested the way it primarily is now is a cause for concern. Partially because America is so greedy compared to other first world countries with how much power we use.

I highly recommend the following link to the map I showed in class and messing around with the details of it.  It details each state by what their primary source of power is and showing maps of what states are trying solar and wind power. I also recommend the NPR show that did a special on reengineering the grid.

http://www.npr.org/2009/04/24/110997398/visualizing-the-u-s-electric-grid