000438175 000__ 03949cam\a2200433\a\4500 000438175 001__ 438175 000438175 005__ 20210513152824.0 000438175 006__ m\\\\\\\\u\\\\\\\\ 000438175 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000438175 008__ 120529s2011\\\\mau\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000438175 010__ $$z 2011003081 000438175 020__ $$a9780306819773 (electronic bk.) 000438175 020__ $$z9780306818851 000438175 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn712016155 000438175 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10460873 000438175 035__ $$a438175 000438175 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000438175 043__ $$an-us--- 000438175 05014 $$aTJ808.7.U6$$bM33 2011eb 000438175 08204 $$a338.9/27$$222 000438175 1001_ $$aMadrigal, Alexis,$$d1982- 000438175 24510 $$aPowering the dream$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe history and promise of green technology /$$cAlexis Madrigal. 000438175 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bDa Capo Press,$$c2011. 000438175 300__ $$a1 online resource (xiv, 365 p.) :$$bill. 000438175 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000438175 5050_ $$a1: The dream of a more perfect power -- Profit, salvation -- The first green-technology futurist -- The utopia commercial -- Prescribing for the globe itself -- 2: What was -- Steam-powered America -- The wind and the West -- The parable of Petrolia -- Wave motors and airplanes -- Compressed air and electricity -- 3: 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 -- 4: Lessons from the Great Energy Rethink -- What happens when an energy system breaks -- Thermodynamics -- Transcendentalism -- Tools -- Technology -- 5: 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. 000438175 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000438175 520__ $$a"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 green for more than a century.Half compendium of lost opportunities, half hopeful look toward the future, Powering the Dream tells the stories of the brilliant, often irascible inventors who foresaw our current problems, tried to invent cheap and energy renewable solutions, and drew the blueprint for a green future"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000438175 520__ $$a"This book looks at the history of alternative energy (solar, wind)"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000438175 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000438175 650_0 $$aRenewable energy sources$$xResearch$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$vPopular works. 000438175 650_0 $$aRenewable energy sources$$xForecasting$$vPopular works. 000438175 650_0 $$aSustainable engineering$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$vPopular works. 000438175 650_0 $$aSustainable engineering$$xForecasting$$vPopular works. 000438175 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000438175 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMadrigal, Alexis, 1982-$$tPowering the dream.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2011$$z9780306818851$$z(DLC) 2011003081$$w(OCoLC)657595578 000438175 8520_ $$bacq 000438175 85280 $$bebk$$hProquest Ebook Central 000438175 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=679942$$zOnline Access 000438175 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:438175$$pGLOBAL_SET 000438175 980__ $$aEBOOK 000438175 980__ $$aBIB 000438175 982__ $$aEbook 000438175 983__ $$aOnline