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010 _a 2013010030
020 _a9781608681327 (hardback)
020 _z9781608681334 (ebook)
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100 1 _aPerlin, John.
240 1 0 _aGolden thread
245 1 0 _aLet it shine :
_bthe 6,000-year story of solar energy /
_cJohn Perlin ; foreword by Amory B. Lovins.
250 _aFully revised and expanded
264 1 _aNovato, California :
_bNew World Library,
_c[2013]
300 _axxi, 519 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRevision of: A golden thread / by Ken Butti and John Perlin. -- Palo Alto : Cheshire Books ; New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1980.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 455-495) and index.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aSolar energy
_xHistory.
650 0 _aArchitecture and solar radiation
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHOUSE & HOME / Sustainable Living.
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650 7 _aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Alternative & Renewable.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aHISTORY / Civilization.
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