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PERFECT POWER: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener, More Abundant Energy

by Robert Galvin, Kurt Yeager, Jay Stuller
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Appeal: Clean, abundant energy for a sustainable future.

Recommendation: "Perfect Power" is a must-read for anyone interested in creating a sustainable future. Galvin's "Six Sigma" concepts provide a framework for supercharging energy reliability and quality needs, reducing wasteful spending on infrastructure, and facilitating national energy independence through microgrids. This book is a call-to-action for investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and consumers alike to take advantage of cleaner, greener energy sources and build a brighter future.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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PERFECT POWER: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener, More Abundant Energy

by Robert Galvin, Kurt Yeager, Jay Stuller
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ISBN: 9780071548823
Authors: Robert Galvin, Kurt Yeager, Jay Stuller
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Date of Publication: 2008-09-16
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Science
Related Topics: Technology, Energy, Business, Physics, Energy, Technology
Goodreads rating: 2.86
(rated by 14 readers)

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What's the solution to the world's growing energy problem?PERFECT POWERElectric usage is rising. Fuel costs are rocketing. Blackouts are happening more frequently. Why? Because our electrical power system--built on a vast network of resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, water, and coal--has become woefully outdated, increasingly expensive, and dangerously fragile. We need to change the current system, and we need to do it now. Written by business visionary and former Motorola chairman Robert Galvin, Perfect Power shows us how to create a “perfect” system that can deliver power where needed, at an astonishing reliability standard of 99.9999999 percent. By super-charging the “Six Sigma” concepts that Galvin developed as the founder and CEO at Motorola, we can
 

Appeal: Clean, abundant energy for a sustainable future.

Recommendation: "Perfect Power" is a must-read for anyone interested in creating a sustainable future. Galvin's "Six Sigma" concepts provide a framework for supercharging energy reliability and quality needs, reducing wasteful spending on infrastructure, and facilitating national energy independence through microgrids. This book is a call-to-action for investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and consumers alike to take advantage of cleaner, greener energy sources and build a brighter future.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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