One of the major challenges of the coming century is how to keep our technological world working and still save the environment and mankind. Author Mark Shelton takes readers through fascinating Sunpower, Inc., staffed by engineers testing a solar-powered machine, which may promise to be one of the most important advances the world has ever known.
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One of the major challenges of the coming century is how to keep our technological world working and still save the environment and mankind. Author Mark Shelton takes readers through fascinating Sunpower, Inc., staffed by engineers testing a solar-powered machine, which may promise to be one of the most important advances the world has ever known.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Bound in navy blue half-cloth with blue boards, navy cloth has two tiny white dots, otherwise in Fine Condition. Tight, solid and square with sharp corners. Internals spotless, as new. Bright, clean, glossy white jacket, un-clipped, with illustration and bold titles in black and green. To address global warming, Arctic oil drilling, and the vanishing ozone layer, a small group of engineers in a tiny town of Appalachian, Ohio, work under the guidance of a visionary eccentric named William Beale to transform the way the world makes and uses energy. Mark Shelton takes the reader inside the labs and engine shops of Sunpower, Inc., where engineers are harnessing space-age technology to an idea as old as the steam engine, development of a solar-powered Stirling engine. Stirling engines are on the market today. 272 pages with Index. 6.4 x 9.5 inches. 1994, W W Norton & Co Inc, New York and London.
