Reaping the Wind
Subtitle: How Mechanical Wizards, Visionaries, and Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781559637077
Subjects: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology; Power generation & distribution; Wind power plants; Science/Mathematics; Energy Economics; Wind Energy Technology; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; USA; Social Aspects; History; Natural Resources; Technology / Environmental; Energy; Electric utilities; United States
First sentence: "I hear the day is this coming Monday," blurted somebody into my phone answering machine, the surly voice edged with a New York jeer.
Description: "In Reaping the Wind, journalist Peter Asmus tells the history of commercial wind power in the United States. He introduces readers to maverick scientists and technologists who labored in obscurity, to entrepreneurs and visionary capitalists who believed that a centuries old idea could be made feasible in the modern world, and to enterprising financial advisers and investors who sought to exploit the last great tax shelter in federal history.".

"Reaping the Wind is both engaging and instructive, with information about the technologies and policies that drive the industry and give it promise interwoven with the human story of the struggle to develop - against great odds - reliable, clean energy from a source as unpredictable and seemingly uncontrollable as the wind. Anyone interested in renewable energy or the human and political drama behind the development of new technologies will find this an engrossing and enlightening work."--BOOK JACKET.