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The Forty-Dollar Electron

Firm Power, Data Centers, and the New Grid · written by P. I. Ford

The complete audiobook, chapter by chapter, narrated by Charon. Free to listen. 100% of the book’s profits go to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

  1. 00A preface
  2. 01B introduction
  3. 02History of the price
  4. 03What cheap power built
  5. 04Master commodity beneath
  6. 05Why forty
  7. 06Capacity factor
  8. 07Value of firmness
  9. 08Storage honestly
  10. 09Fair to sun and wind
  11. 10Compute demand curve
  12. 11Power is the constraint
  13. 12Fence line power
  14. 13Never goes dark
  15. 14Transmission bottleneck
  16. 15Distributed firm generation
  17. 16Resilience critical load
  18. 17Grid of 2040
  19. 18Burner in numbers
  20. 19Catching lightning
  21. 20Closes on model gated on moon
  22. 21Build the fuel first
  23. 22What is demonstrated
  24. 23Closed on model
  25. 24Targeted and planned
  26. 25Credibility economy
  27. 26Staged road
  28. 27World at forty
  29. 28First fence line plant
  30. 29Letter to grid operator 2045