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If you want a book suggestion for your audience 'The Grid' by Phillip F. Schewe can be kind of fun for the more serious reader but the book 'Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape' by Brian Hayes is actually quite fun; it explains what all that 'stuff' we see and use daily does. After reading it I can remember shaving one morning and seeing the lights start to pulse and knowing a circuit was about to blow...then hearing the far off boom as it did. Shaving by flashlight is not cool though.

But by and large, I find people don't know or care where their power comes from....until it goes off...and then they cease to care once it comes on again.

I finished “The Grid” on Sunday and have “Infrastucture” by Hayes open on my desk as I type. I have to agree that they are a couple of the best books I’ve ever read. I’m and old electrical engineer, and I learned a lot of things in those two very readable and entertaining books. Especially “Infrastructure.” It should be in every library.