Trade-in the 20th Century Electric Grid, Don't Trade-off Local Energy
April 05, 2012 at 09:00 AM EDT
In a New York Times Sunday Review piece last month — Drawing the Line at Power Lines — Elisabeth Rosenthal suggested that our desire for clean energy will require significant tradeoffs: There are pipelines, trains, trucks and high-voltage transmission lines. None of them are pretty, and all have environmental drawbac