Electrify
An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
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Electrify
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David Marantz
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Saul Griffith
About this listen
In Electrify, Saul Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint - optimistic but feasible - for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply: Electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.
Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest "climate loans." Griffith's plan doesn't rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses-but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs - up to 25 million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.
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- Mars
- 11-08-2022
exceptional
A compelling discussion of practical pathways to confront the challenge of decarbonisation, told from the can-do, pro human and optimistic perspective only an engineer can provide.
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- D. Hopkins
- 05-01-2023
Love the positive solutions
Just don’t think vegan is good for health or the planet. But regenerative farming - with animals - is!
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-07-2024
the blueprint to save our planet
this book lays out in enough detail, but simply, how to save our planet from climate change disaster; moving beyond the why and the arguments straight to the solutions....
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- BM
- 12-02-2023
good book
to the point and well researched. highly recommend for the average person through to those in the energy field.
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- Nick Pellow
- 13-12-2021
Wish it was Saul reading
Didn’t like the robotic American narrator.
Some metrics were imperial… this was a pain.
Otherwise amazing content!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-01-2022
Saul is the man, narration is monotone
Great content, Saul ahead of his time and hits the important points of transition to electrification. Narration very monotone.
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- Isla
- 22-09-2022
important book ruined by computer narration
This is a super important book and the content is wonderful. However, they havent bothered to get a narrator- instead it's voiced by computer generated speech which makes it unbearable to listen to. Very disappointing.
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- JEREMY BALL
- 08-11-2024
Good facts, a little boring
Some great statistics clearly presented but too many assumptions as to the cause and effects of “climate change” and not enough real science and objective thinking
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- Frank
- 03-01-2024
Ai makes it feel not human
The AI reading the book took away the human touch.
Really good information in the book and valid arguments.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-2021
Great content, but I wish Saul read this himself
I am a recent discoverer of Saul’s work and ethos about electrifying everything, and couldn’t wait to listen to the book.
While the content is brilliant, the narration really lets the experience down. Unfortunately the robotic and unemotional delivery of the audiobook causes a big disconnect between the evocative information and how it resonates. Would love it if Saul just read his words in his voice.
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