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"You know what": Ibid.

"They should just": Quoted in "Enron Trader Conversations: 'Pow-erex and Bonneville...,'" Ex. SNO—224, pp. 5–6, Seattle Times, February 4, 2005, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001945474_webenronaudio02.html (accessed September 27, 2009).

[>] "I used contemporary": Steven Watt, conversation with the author, October 2008.

"the most significant": U.S. Department of Energy, The Smart Grid: An Introduction (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, n.d.), p. 5.

261 "Imagine all the south-facing": Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (New York: Times Books, 2007), p. 145.

[>] "Energy is at the core": Richard E. Smalley, testimony to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Hearing on Sustainable, Low Emission, Electricity Generation, April 27, 2004, http://www.energybulletin.net/note/249 (accessed October 18, 2008).

[>] "From about 1990": Brian Bowers, Lengthening the Day: A History of Lighting Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 190.

[>] "It took me almost": Gavin Hudson, "Korea Shines for Compact Fluorescent Use," EcoWorldly, January 9, 2008, http://ecoworldly.com/2008/01/09/brilliant-asia-cfls-are-turning-korea-on (accessed March 11, 2009).

"You wake up": Quoted in "Making the Switch (or Not)," New York Times, January 10, 2008, p. D6.

"No, the light quality": Ibid.

[>] "Do not use": "What If I Accidentally Break a Fluorescent Lamp in My House?" Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management, http://www.maine.gov/dep/rwm/homeowner/cflbreakcleanup.htm (accessed April 11, 2009).

[>] "The candle does not": Gaston Bachelard, The Flame of a Candle, trans. Joni Caldwell (Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 1988), p. 37.

[>] "The candle will burn out": Ibid.

"the unique combination": "Reproduction Light Bulbs," Rejuvenation: Classic American Lighting & House Parts, http://www.rejuvenation.com/templates/collection.phtml?accessories=Reproduction%20Bulbs (accessed May 3, 2009).

CHAPTER 19: AT THE MERCY OF LIGHT

[>] "I wanted to investigate": Michel Siffre, Beyond Time: The Heroic Adventure of a Scientist's 63 Days Spent in Darkness and Solitude in a Cave 375 Feet Underground, ed. and trans. Herma Briffault (London: Chatto & Windus, 1965), p. 25.

"This morning I was": Ibid., pp. 154–55.

271 "I emerged": Michel Siffre, "Six Months Alone in a Cave," National Geographic, March 1975, p. 428.

"Forty-second awakening": Siffre, Beyond Time, pp. 166, 181–82. "I underestimated": Ibid., pp. 222, 225.

[>] "meaning that most": Warren E. Leary, "Feeling Tired and Run Down? It Could Be the Lights," New York Times, February 8, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com (accessed August 9, 2007).

"Every time we turn on": Dr. Charles Czeisler, quoted ibid.

[>] Divided sleep: See A. Roger Ekirch, "Sleep We Have Lost: Preindustrial Slumber in the British Isles," American Historical Review 106, no. 2 (April 2001), http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ahooo343.html (accessed July 4, 2007).

[>] "There is one stirring": Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Night Among the Pines," in "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" and "The Amateur Emigrant" (London: Penguin Books, 2004), pp. 56–57.

"slept only about an hour": Natalie Angier, "Modern Life Suppresses an Ancient Body Rhythm," New York Times, March 14, 1995, http://www.nytimes.com (accessed August 9, 2007).

[>] "We think Thomas Edison": Czeisler, quoted in Leary, "Feeling Tired and Run Down?"

"Everything which decreases": "Edison's Prophesy: A Duplex, Sleepless, Dinnerless World," Literary Digest, November 14, 1914, p. 966.

[>] "Offshore hydrocarbon platforms": William A. Montevecchi, "Influences of Artificial Light on Marine Birds," in Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting, ed. Catherine Rich and Travis Longcore (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 100.

"Many nocturnal species": Paul Beier, "Effects of Artificial Night Lighting