Philip F. Schewe Author of The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World http://search.barnesandnoble.com

Dave Kansas Author of The Wall Street Journal Guide to The End of Wall Street as We Know It http://search.barnesandnoble.com

Co-host Roger Clark Partner, Clark, Goldberg & Madruga www.clarkgoldberg.com

Philip F. Schewe is a distinguished physicist and playwright with a keen appreciation for technical ingenuity. In his book, The Grid, he illuminates how electricity has catalyzed both the best and worst of modernity since Thomas Edison devised the first electrical network in 1882. Even as the grid delivered light and mechanization, foremost minds like Westinghouse, Tesla and Insull continued to refine it, creating a society totally dependent on its invisible wonders. In the 1965 Northeast blackout, for example, New York shut down for lack of a product that barely existed half a century before. The grid's complexity demands predictability, Philip shows, but even a minor short circuit can trigger a system-wide avalanche. Peppering his narrative with quotations from cultural critics Lewis Mumford and Henry David Thoreau, he argues that, economically, "we can't afford to throw away two-thirds" of energy as waste, and explains how nuclear and renewable resources can reduce pollution. Philip also explores how Africa and Asia's dearth of electricity affects the participation of impoverished people in society. The more dependent we become on electricity to perform even the most mundane daily tasks, the more the grid's inevitable shortcomings will take their toll on populations globally. A system built in such a way that the bigger it gets, the more inevitable its collapse!
 
Dave Kansas is Editor at Large of FiLife.com, a new online personal finance joint venture between Dow Jones and IAC Corp. In his latest book, The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know It, he makes sense of the current economic madness, revealing how the crisis is affecting our financial lives and what steps we should take to inform and protect ourselves. He provides an inside look at the financial wizardry, easy money and overconfidence that drove the subprime crisis, credit crunch and market meltdown

Dave also spent four years as editor of The Wall Street Journal's "Money & Investing" section and was editor-in-chief of TheStreet.com during its formative years. He is the author of two previous books, The Wall Street Journal's Complete Money & Investing Guidebook and TheStreet.com Guide to Investing in the Internet Era.

Roger Clark is the founding member and managing partner of Clark, Goldberg & Madruga www.clarkgoldberg.com. In his more than 25 years practicing law, Roger has earned a national reputation as a successful trial attorney representing insurers, cable television providers, and small and large businesses in a broad range of business litigation matters. “My philosophy has always been that the attorneys in this law firm must be prepared not just to ‘litigate’ a case, but to try it before a judge or jury, while at the same time keeping the client’s goals and objectives squarely within our sights.” Roger is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating that can be bestowed upon an attorney.

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Philip F. Schewe
Author of The Grid: A
Journey Through the Heart
of Our Electrified World
http://search.barnesandnoble.com

Dave Kansas
Author of The Wall Street
Journal Guide to The End
of Wall Street as We Know It
http://search.barnesandnoble.com

Roger Clark
310-478-0077
Clark, Goldberg & Madruga
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