our electric grid
filthy
coal-fired power plants
spew carbon into the air.
a mishmash of
(9,200 generators streams vital electrons
along 300,000 miles of aging, inefficient)
transmission lines.
And one untrimmed tree
in the wrong place
could plunge a quarter
of the country
into darkness.
--Zann Carter 04.10.09 (found poem: Wired Magazine, April 2009, p. 79.)
(picture from whitehouse.gov)
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