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This book sheds light on how the modern 3-bladed wind turbine came into being, and who, how and what in the proceeding period caused the success. It looks back over three decades to find the roots of this exciting development, a long cavalcade of developers, inventors, and manufacturers including the Danish authors who themselves were part of the breakthrough. Written for non-specialists, the book covers minimal science, emphasizing the story of how wind power became a worldwide 30-billion-euro business employing nearly one million people.
Helps readers understand and appreciate what the history of wind power can teach us about technology innovation and provides the implications for both wind power today and its future This book takes readers on a journey through the history of wind power in order to show how the technology evolved over the course of the twentieth century and where it may be headed in the twenty-first century. It introduces and examines broad themes such as government funding of wind power, the role of fossil fuels in wind power development, and the importance of entrepreneurs in wind power development. It also discusses the lessons learned from wind power technology innovation and makes them relevant to the u...
In part 2 of Wind Power for the World, the editors have collected reports and overviews of wind power status and history in various countries, several written by individuals who have made valuable contributions to the successful emergence of wind power. The chapters cover the uphill struggle; wind energy strategies and policies that paved the way; and the creative persons in politics, agencies, institutes, and the industry. It also examines the world societies at large and how solutions to the challenges were found in different countries.
The earth's not dying, it's being killed. Only a movement for renewable energy will save it.
One story that you just can’t miss, the Earth@Risk is a book on the story of Earth, the life-bearing ship going solo in this vast universe, as it suffers at the hands of its own children, the modern humans. The Story is narrated passionately in chapters that cover the beauty and uniqueness of Earth from a cosmic perspective while highlighting its vulnerabilities and the relentless onslaught on its life-bearing capability, accompanied by the great biodiversity loss and a disquieting line-up of innumerable life forms at the unending labyrinth of the extinct. The author promises to take his readers on a journey. And what a journey it is! From the deep space under the shelter of a Milky Way ar...
Presents over twenty-five essays by Thom Hartmann on a variety of American topics.
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits in the relationship between the regions that produce this energy and those that consume it. Jaume Franquesa considers Spain, a country where wind now constitutes the main source of energy production. In particular, he looks at the Southern Catalonia region, which has traditionally been a source of energy production through nuclear reactors, dams, oil refineries, and gas and electrical lines. Despi...
Accompanied by DVD videodisc, entitled The 2006-08 throne and budget debates between NDP leader Lorne Calvert and Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall, in jewel case.
The book was written because I started to take an interest in alternative energies at a very young age, and before the age of 20 I saw an older man making a windmill. It was around the time when the large 2 Megawatt wind turbine was built in Tvind, which was managed by the traveling college. It was my lot to try my hand at different forms of energy, which I describe in my book, which is aimed at everyone with a passion for protecting our planet and with an interest in developing and forming the framework for new environmentally friendly forms of energy.
How ecological design emerged in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 1970s, building on both Scandinavia’s design culture and its environmental movement. Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession. The emergence of ecological design in Scandinavia at the height of the popular environmental movement, Fallan suggests, illuminates a little-known reciprocity between ...