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RECORD NUMBER: 28 OF 44| Main Title | Powering the dream : the history and promise of green technology / | ||||||||||||||||
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| Author | Madrigal, Alexis, | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Da Capo Press, | ||||||||||||||||
| Year Published | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 657595578 | ||||||||||||||||
| ISBN | 9780306818851; 030681885X; 9780306820991; 0306820994 | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects | Renewable energy sources--Research--United States--History--Popular works ; Renewable energy sources--Forecasting--Popular works ; Sustainable engineering--United States--History--Popular works ; Sustainable engineering--Forecasting--Popular works ; SCIENCE--General ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--General ; Fèornybara energikällor--historia ; Fèorenta staterna ; Renewable energy resources--Research--United States--History ; Renewable energy resources--Forecasting | ||||||||||||||||
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| Collation | xiv, 365 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Contents Notes | 1: The dream of a more perfect power -- Profit, salvation -- The first green-technology futurist -- The utopia commercial -- Prescribing for the globe itself -- 2: What was -- Steam-powered America -- The wind and the West -- The parable of Petrolia -- Wave motors and airplanes -- Compressed air and electricity -- 3: What might have been -- The National Electric Transportation System that almost was -- Solar hot water, day and night -- The solar home of the 1950s -- The Solar Energy Research Institute -- The meaning of Luz -- How to burn a biological library -- 4: Lessons from the Great Energy Rethink -- What happens when an energy system breaks -- Thermodynamics -- Transcendentalism -- Tools -- Technology -- 5: Innovation and the future -- Google's RE |