This compelling saga recounts the human effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity- from the first European windmills, to nineteenth-century experiments in rural electrification, to the immense wind farms in California and the plains states that feed the power grid today. Environmental historian Robert W. Righter describes eccentric inventors and technical innovations, analyzes the politics of the power industry, past and present, and demonstrates that individuals and small businesses have made the greatest ...
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This compelling saga recounts the human effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity- from the first European windmills, to nineteenth-century experiments in rural electrification, to the immense wind farms in California and the plains states that feed the power grid today. Environmental historian Robert W. Righter describes eccentric inventors and technical innovations, analyzes the politics of the power industry, past and present, and demonstrates that individuals and small businesses have made the greatest contributions to wind-energy development. This book also focuses on contemporary developments, including U.S. government research and regulation and the international race for dominance in the wind-turbine business. Righter explores the arguments of people and organizations opposed to the spread of wind generators- often the same environmental groups, paradoxically, that hailed wind energy as a savior in the late 1970s. -- from Back Cover
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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New in new dust jacket. NEW, Hardcover edition, as pictured. ISBN 0806128127. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 361 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. NEW, Hardcover edition, as pictured. ISBN 0806128127
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 361 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 95024686 Type of material Book Personal name Righter, Robert W. Main title Wind energy in America: a history / by Robert W. Righter. Published/Created Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Description xxi, 361 p. : ill.; 23 cm. ISBN 0806128127 LC classification TK1541. R54 1996 LC Subjects Wind power--United States--History. Electric power production--United States--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 621.31/2136 Geographic area code n-us---
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Acceptable. Hardcover The item is fairly worn but still readable. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. May have page creases, creased spine, bent cover or markings inside. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine green and blue pictorial dj. Clean, unmarked. This compelling saga is the history of the effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity. Author has included the first European windmills, the nineteenth-century electric experiments that empowered rural America, and finally, the immense, acres-wide wind farms that feed the power grid in late-twentieth-century California and elsewhere. 361 pp. with index.
