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Reaping the wind : how mechanical wizards, visionaries, and profiteers helped shape our energy future /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asmus, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Wind power plants.
Electric utilities > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Birds of a feather
  • 2. Breath of the Gods
  • 3. Welcome to the machines
  • 4. Tesla's AC and Edison's utility monopoly
  • 5. The winds of war
  • 6. Visions of Heronemus
  • 7. Small is beautiful
  • 8. Outlaws of the Altamont
  • 9. California dreaming
  • 10. King of the hill
  • 11. The tinker man
  • 12. Good connections
  • 13. The pirate poet of the Tehachapi
  • 14. Sirens and songs of San Gorgonio
  • 15. Shelter from the storm
  • 16. All in the family
  • 17. Not in my backyard
  • 18. The windsmiths of Montezuma
  • 19. From boom to bust?
  • 20. Betting the farm
  • 21. Machines in the garden
  • 22. Fall from grace
  • 23. Changing of the guard
  • 24. Moving mountains with wind chicks, churches, and oil companies
  • 25. Landscapes of power
  • 26. A white knight for dark times?
  • 27. The promise.