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Author : Gene Tollefson
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Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book BPA and the Struggle for Power at Cost written by Gene Tollefson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard White
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429952423
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Organic Machine written by Richard White and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.
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Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
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Author : Paul W. Hirt
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700618732
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Wired Northwest written by Paul W. Hirt and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region's first century of electrification, Paul Hirt's new study reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible. Hirt shows that every energy source comes with its share of costs and benefits. Because Northwest energy development meant river development, the electric power industry collided with the salmon fishing industry and the treaty rights of Northwest indigenous peoples from the 1890s to the present. Because U.S. federal agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built many of the large dams in the region, a significant portion of the power supply is publicly owned, initiating contentious debates over how that power should best serve the citizens of the region. Hirt dissects these ongoing battles, evaluating the successes and failures of regional efforts to craft an efficient yet socially just power system. Focusing on the dynamics of problem-solving, governance, and the tense relationship between profit-seeking and the public interest, Hirt's narrative takes in a wide range of players-not only on the consumer side, where electricity transformed mills, mines, households, commercial districts, urban transit, factories, and farms, but also power companies operating at the local and regional level, and investment companies that financed and in some cases parasitized the operators. His study also straddles the international border. It is the first book to compare energy development in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. Both engaging and balanced in its treatment of all the actors on this expansive stage, The Wired Northwest helps us better understand the challenges of the twenty-first century, as we try to learn from past mistakes and re-design an energy grid for a more sustainable future.
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Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul C. Pitzer
Publisher : Washington State University Press
ISBN 13 : 1636820824
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Grand Coulee written by Paul C. Pitzer and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accolades freely and frequently lavished on Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project included “The Biggest Thing on Earth!” “The Eighth Wonder of the World!” and “The Largest Reclamation Project Ever Undertaken!” They highlight a monumental construction effort that spanned the 1930s through the 1980s. Now, for the first time, the story of this gigantic undertaking is told in this definitive history. When completed, the eleven-million-cubic-yard monolith at Grand Coulee on the Columbia River in north central Washington became the largest single block of concrete ever laid and provided an abundance of electricity that helped win World War II. Still one of the world's largest energy-producing stations, it is at the heart of a dynamic power grid that supplies all of the western United States with energy. The product of a long struggle over how to irrigate the Columbia Basin, Grand Coulee Dam resulted from the visions of eastern Washington residents, people like Wenatchee editor Rufus Woods and members of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, who saw the undertaking as a dynamic plan to bring prosperity to their region. Yet today the reclamation enterprise--more than half a century after construction began--stands only half finished. Its future depends on the nation's need for food and the willingness of the public to pay the rapidly spiraling economic and environmental costs associated with such large-scale irrigation plans. The fight for Grand Coulee Dam, and the story of its construction, is a vital and animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working, often against both each other and nature, to build something spectacular. They accomplished their goal against the backdrop of the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The dam, and the extensive irrigation network it supports, stands today as a monument to their dreams and their labors.
Author : David P. Billington, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262359685
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book From Insight to Innovation written by David P. Billington, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer. Technology is essential to modern life, yet few of us are technology-literate enough to know much about the engineering that underpins it. In this book, David P. Billington, Jr., offers accessible accounts of the key twentieth-century engineering innovations that brought us into the twenty-first century. Billington examines a series of engineering advances--from Hoover Dam and jet engines to the transistor, the microchip, the computer, and the internet--and explains how they came about and how they work.
Author : Martin Doyle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242366
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers written by Martin Doyle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An original and thought-provoking exploration of the sinuous course that water has carved through our economic and political landscape.” —Gerard Helferich, Wall Street Journal In a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution’s roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina and the water wars in the west. Through his own travels and his encounters with experts all over the country—a Mississippi River tugboat captain, an Erie Canal lock operator, a project manager buying water rights for farms along the Colorado River—Doyle reveals the central role rivers have played in American history and how vital they are to its future.
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 108-1 Hearing: Impacts on Tribal Fish and Wildlife Management Programs in The Pacific Northwest, S. Hrg. 108-125, June 4, 2003, * written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Impacts on Tribal Fish and Wildlife Management Programs in the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Public Power written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for include an annual directory issue.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
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Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book 106-1 Hearings: Electricity Competition-Volume 2, Serial No. 106-64, May 13, 1999 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Columbus, OH, Seattle, WA, Los Angeles, CA, and New Orleans, LA written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Review of budget proposals for fiscal year 1988 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Electricity Competition written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book The Northwest Environmental Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Supreme Court
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Total Pages : 1256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Official Reports of the Supreme Court written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
