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81) California burning: the fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and what it means for America's power grid
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California's largest utility company that led to countless wildfires - including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise - and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas & Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter...
82) Ocean's eleven
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
83) Christmas Eve
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve, they find that laughter, romance, and a little holiday magic will get them through, and change their lives in unexpected ways. A heartless real estate tycoon clings to life in a precarious construction elevator hundreds of feet off the ground. Unexpected relationships bloom for a musician stuck with her dysfunctional orchestra mates.
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hold on to your umbrella and stock up on marshmallows, Elmer is coming to town! Hurricane Elmer, that is. Judy and Stink and the whole Moody family hunker down with beans and batteries, ready to wait out the storm. Along with massive rain and strong winds, Elmer throws down ghosts, squirrels, and aliens. Just when things couldn't possibly get any freakier, flicker, flicker, gulp; the lights go O-U-T out. The Moodys are smack-dab in the middle of a...
Author
Series
Rule of three trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A teen's suburban neighborhood bands together for its own survival in a world stricken by a catastrophic blackout"--
91) Will to survive
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a global blackout, teenager Adam Daley and his neighbors have turned their middle American community into a fortress, defending against countless enemies, but what is lurking in the dark is a greater danger than ever before: somebody who wants to destroy the neighborhood and Adam at any cost.
95) Magnetic storm
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
On March 13, 1989, the lights went out across Canada and the eastern seaboard of the United States. One of the most serious power grid failures in American history was caused by a magnetic storm. Nova explores one of the most serious threats to life.
96) Electricity
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Language
English
Description
"Accessible information about circuits, conductors, and cells will help readers grasp the fundamentals of electricity. Fun experimentssuch as building a robot head or making an electronic switchbring these lessons to life in a safe, manageable, and exciting way"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From substations to gas stations, boardrooms to military bases ₇ the film tells the story of America₂s energy industry on the brink of massive change. Whether it fails, prevails or adapts, the outcome will profoundly affect us all. This is the first in a series of new films about the future of the U.S. energy grid from American Resilience Project, producers of award-winning Tidewater.
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