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Deb Chachra: How Infrastructure Works (AudiobookFormat, Penguin Audio) 5 stars

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …

Ch9 Energy transition: Diffuse, diverse, and distributed. Decentralization important for resilience, also so communities can build to their own needs. Also to take advantage of diffuse natural resources like sunlight. Our total energy use is < 0.04% of sun that hits Earth! BIG on solar age of abundance. Presents some novel ways to store energy (concrete batteries!) and runs through some ideas on infra of the future.