Primers
The Science
These primers will help you understand the value chain and business models that subtly influence our technology choices and consumption behavior.
By adjusting incentives, creating new markets and leveraging new technologies, we can change our collective behavior and sustain and spread prosperity for all.
Energy Primers
How electricity is generated, moved, bought and stored, and who makes the decisions at each step. Thirteen chapters across three primers, from the reactor core to the retail rate.
Electrical Grid
The Electrical Grid
Six chapters on the largest machine ever built: how it stays in balance, who owns it, how power is traded, and who operates the system.
Energy Generation
New Power Sources
Where electricity comes from, how a thermal plant works, and the two low-carbon routes to firm and variable supply.
Energy Storage
Energy Storage
Moving energy in time: what each technology can hold and for how long, why density decides the application, and which gaps storage cannot close.
Pollution Primers
What is in the air and the water, how it is measured and regulated, and what actually reduces it.
Air Pollution
The Air We Breathe
Five chapters on particulates and criteria pollutants, the chemistry behind them, and the standards and technologies that bring them down.
Water Pollution
The Water We Drink
Four chapters on drinking water contaminants, the rules that govern them, how quality is monitored, and where efficiency gains come from.