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The old, dirty, creaky US electric grid would cost $5 trillion to replace. Where should infrastructure spending go?

  • Written by Joshua D. Rhodes, Postdoctoral Researcher of Energy, University of Texas at Austin
imageOld school: Much of the power plant and transmission network we rely on has been around for decades. andrewfhart/flickr, CC BY-SA

The electric grid is an amazing integrated system of machines spanning an entire continent. The National Academy of Engineering has called it one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century.

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