Engineer says 'smart grid' needed for shift to alternative energy
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 06:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Electrical grids are balky beasts, and nobody knows that better than Stanford Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ram Rajagopal. He grew up in Brazil, where no one took electricity for granted. Brownouts were an unavoidable – and sweltering – fact of life.