| Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy Revised Edition Contributor(s): Perlin, John (Author), Lovins, Amory (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1608681327 ISBN-13: 9781608681327 Publisher: New World Library OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Sustainability & Green Design - House & Home | Sustainable Living - Technology & Engineering | Power Resources - Alternative & Renewable |
| Dewey: 621.470 |
| LCCN: 2013010030 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6" W x 9" (1.90 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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| Publisher Description: Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuel a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York City rooftop in 1884, or that brilliant engineers in France were using solar power in the 1860s to run steam engines, or that in 1901 an ostrich farmer in Southern California used a single solar engine to irrigate three hundred acres of citrus trees. Fewer still know that Leonardo da Vinci planned to make his fortune by building half-mile-long mirrors to heat water, or that the Bronze Age Chinese used hand-sized solar-concentrating mirrors to light fires the way we use matches and lighters today. With thirteen new chapters, Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin's classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today's solar renaissance. This unique and compelling compendium of humankind's solar ideas tells the fascinating story of how our predecessors throughout time, again and again, have applied the sun to better their lives -- and how we can too. |