The Electric Grandma

Electricity is the Mother Network, on which our civilization depends

Why Launch a Substack?

I’m launching this because most of my energy friends are on Substack. I always hoped to be one of the cool kids.

(No, that’s not the reason.)

I write because I hope people will save our fragile electric grids.

Why Substack? I chose Substack because I was dealing with a WordPress website plus an email list service. It became frustrating and expensive. I want to write blog posts about energy. I don’t want to deal with the WordPress overhead.

Equally important, Substack is a community. With Substack, I can cross-post with my friends. I can send emails. I can help build a community and make a difference.

I plan to celebrate the pleasure, safety, and health that electricity has brought to our lives

About this Substack

Will I be celebrating all the time?

Not really. Much of the time, I will write about the poor choices being made on electric grids. I will describe the follies of my grid (New England) and the follies of grids in Texas, Norway, Australia, South Africa, and, of course….Germany. Germany is the poster child for grid stupidity. But alas, Germany is not alone. Since I chose to write about bad decisions on electric grids, I have a target-rich environment for my arrows.

I will write one new post a week. I will also cross-post from my friends (the cool kids). I may also post some of my earlier content from my BlogSpot and WordPress blogs. I’m still thinking this through.

For now, The Electric Grandma Substack is free. I just want to reach people without paying for the expensive apps (WordPress plus an email app) that I have been using. I expect I may add a payment option sometime in the future.

Also, I believe that subscribing (or unsubscribing) to this Substack will be as easy as managing your subscription to my former email list.

I welcome you to a community of people who value electricity.

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A note about the graphic. It is part of a Wikipedia graphic on the Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Great Britain. Sixteen locks go up the hill. You can see the towpath (for horses to pull the canal boats). You can’t quite see the windlasses that people crank to change the water level in the locks. You can see the long levers used to open the gates after the water levels are matched properly. You can’t see the men (navvies) who dug and built the canals.

The canals were a great advance for travel in the early 1800s. Like almost everything in those days, canal travel ultimately depended on human and animal muscle power.

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