| Main Title |
Powering the dream : the history and promise of green technology / |
| 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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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EHAM |
TJ808.7.U6M33 2011 |
|
Region 1 Library/Boston,MA |
06/01/2011 |
| ESAM |
TJ808.7.U6M33 2011 |
|
Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
09/26/2011 |
|
| Collation |
xiv, 365 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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
|
| Place Published |
Cambridge, MA |
| PUB Date Free Form |
c2011 |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
2011003081 |
| Merged OCLC records |
826075805; 861258404; 951697575; 966572397; 967810516; 973962730; 980520130; 1059156726 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20110920151334 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
04258cam 22004574a 45020 |
