Renewable
Subtitle: the world-changing power of alternative energy
By: Jeremy Shere
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780312643751
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Travel; History; Renewable energy sources; Social change; Energy policy
Description: An entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Green gas; title: Henry Ford and the search for ethanol; title: Giant Chinese silver grass; title: The rise, fall, rise and fall of alcohol fuel; title: Gas lines and gasohol; title: Back to the ethanol future; title: Part 2. Sun; title: The sad fate of Jimmy Carter's solar panels; title: Solar Renaissance; title: Sun power; title: Ice from fire; title: Solar reborn; title: Part 3. Wind; title: Charles Brush and his wind machine; title: Wind power reborn; title: Peppard's folly; title: Wind goes electric; title: A new golden age of wind; title: Part 4. Earth; title: Going geothermal at Ball State; title: The geysers; title: Hot rocks and high hopes; title: Part 5. Water; title: Hydropower 2.0; title: The electropolis of America; title: The power of waves; title: Salter's duck.