Powering the Dream The History and Promise of Green Technology

Name: Powering the Dream The History and Promise of Green Technology
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ISBN: 9780306820991

ISBN-10: 0306820994

ISBN-13: 9780306820991

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Authors: Alexis Madrigal

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Few today realize that electric cabs dominated Manhattan's streets in the 1890s; that Boise, Idaho, had a geothermal heating system in 1910; or that the first megawatt turbine in the world was built in 1941 by the son of publishing magnate G. P. Putnam--a feat that would not be duplicated for another forty years. Likewise, while many remember the oil embargo of the 1970s, few are aware that it led to a corresponding explosion in green-technology research that was only derailed when energy prices later dropped.In other words: We've been here before. Although we may have failed, America has had the chance to put our world on a more sustainable path. Americans have, in fact, been inventing…

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List price: $20.50
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 2/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies at LinkÃ¶ping University.Alexis Madrigalis senior editor and lead technology writer for TheAtlantic.com and an award-winning former staff writer for Wired.com. He is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a regular guest on NPR. He lives in Washington, D.C



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Dream of a More Perfect Power



Profit, Salvation



The First Green-Technology Futurist



The Utopia Commercial



Prescribing for the Globe Itself



What Was



Steam-Powered America



The Wind and the West



The Parable of Petrolia



Wave Motors and Airplanes



Compressed Air and Electricity



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



Lessons from the Great Energy Rethink



What Happens When an Energy System Breaks



Thermodynamics



Transcendentalism



Tools



Technology



Innovation and the Future



Google's RE < C Challenge



The First Megawatt and Failing Smart



What Green Tech Can Learn from Nuclear Power's Rise and Fall



The 5-Cent Turbine and the Siren Call of the Breakthrough



Energy Storage and the Return of Compressed Air



"Throw Software at the Problem"



Rehumanizing Environmentalism


Notes


Bibliography


Index