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Why the Electrical Grid Is a Civil Rights Issue
Stand by a substation at solar noon and you can hear the republic breathing: a dry chorus of fans, a smell of ozone, cables as thick as a forearm doing the humble arithmetic that keeps everything else lyrical—elections, novels, marriages. If the hum wobbles, the country stutters.
Jan 17, 202626 min
ecologiesThe Lines That Remember the Sun: A North American grid for a Spanish-American republic
Most borders are written in ink, but the U.S.–Mexico line is increasingly drawn in wire. It is a thin set of bridges—high-voltage interties, converter halls, relay cabinets—that allow two different electrical civilizations to borrow from each other when heat climbs, when hurricanes prowl, when a.
Jan 17, 202628 min