The Resource Let it shine : the 6,000-year story of solar energy, John Perlin ; foreword by Amory Lovins
Let it shine : the 6,000-year story of solar energy, John Perlin ; foreword by Amory Lovins
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- Summary
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- "Unprecedented gas prices, heat waves and droughts, climate change, Solyndra - all make "alternative" sources of energy contemporary areas of activism, controversy, lobbying, and legislation. Yet few know that the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and Romans used solar energy in their architecture; that Galileo and da Vinci both planned uses for the power of the sun; and that by 1918, there were more than 4,000 solar water heaters in California. The history of solar architecture and energy technologies gives readers an epiphany-producing sense of its future. Detailing a realistic alternative to fossil fuels, in illustrations the New York Times called "especially fine," and prose Library Journal termed "highly readable," Let It Shine shows that there is nothing - and plenty - new under the sun"--
- "Details the history of strategies to use the power of the sun for human benefit, from the architecture of the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and Romans to the widespread use of solar water heaters in California at the turn of the 20th century"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Fully revised and expanded.
- Extent
- xxi, 519 pages
- Note
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- Revision of: A golden thread / by Ken Butti and John Perlin. -- Palo Alto : Cheshire Books ; New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1980
- "Some of the material in Let it shine appeared in a different form in the Pacific Standard magazine"--t.p. verso
- Isbn
- 9781608681327
- Label
- Let it shine : the 6,000-year story of solar energy
- Title
- Let it shine
- Title remainder
- the 6,000-year story of solar energy
- Statement of responsibility
- John Perlin ; foreword by Amory Lovins
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Unprecedented gas prices, heat waves and droughts, climate change, Solyndra - all make "alternative" sources of energy contemporary areas of activism, controversy, lobbying, and legislation. Yet few know that the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and Romans used solar energy in their architecture; that Galileo and da Vinci both planned uses for the power of the sun; and that by 1918, there were more than 4,000 solar water heaters in California. The history of solar architecture and energy technologies gives readers an epiphany-producing sense of its future. Detailing a realistic alternative to fossil fuels, in illustrations the New York Times called "especially fine," and prose Library Journal termed "highly readable," Let It Shine shows that there is nothing - and plenty - new under the sun"--
- "Details the history of strategies to use the power of the sun for human benefit, from the architecture of the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and Romans to the widespread use of solar water heaters in California at the turn of the 20th century"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Perlin, John
- Dewey number
- 621.4709
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TJ810
- LC item number
- .B88 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Solar energy
- Architecture and solar radiation
- Label
- Let it shine : the 6,000-year story of solar energy, John Perlin ; foreword by Amory Lovins
- Note
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- Revision of: A golden thread / by Ken Butti and John Perlin. -- Palo Alto : Cheshire Books ; New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1980
- "Some of the material in Let it shine appeared in a different form in the Pacific Standard magazine"--t.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 17720387
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- Fully revised and expanded.
- Extent
- xxi, 519 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608681327
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013010030
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Label
- Let it shine : the 6,000-year story of solar energy, John Perlin ; foreword by Amory Lovins
- Note
-
- Revision of: A golden thread / by Ken Butti and John Perlin. -- Palo Alto : Cheshire Books ; New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1980
- "Some of the material in Let it shine appeared in a different form in the Pacific Standard magazine"--t.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 17720387
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- Fully revised and expanded.
- Extent
- xxi, 519 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608681327
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013010030
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
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