How bird poop nearly brought California’s power grid to its knees

Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 09:30 in Earth & Climate

In 1913 in Southern California, two 241-mile-long electric lines began carrying power from hydroelectric dams in the Sierra Nevada to customers in Los Angeles—a massive feat of infrastructure. In 1923, […]

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