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The wind power story : a century of innovation that reshaped the global energy landscape /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owens, Brandon (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley-IEEE Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Wind power > History.
Wind power > Government policy.
Technological innovations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface xi
  • 1 The Wind Power Pioneers 1
  • 1.1 Work of the Devil 1
  • 1.2 The Danish Edison 7
  • 1.3 The War of the Currents 12
  • 1.4 The Colorado Connection 14
  • 2 The Age of Small Wind 19
  • 2.1 Networks of Power 19
  • 2.2 An Interesting Twist 22
  • 2.3 The Savior of the Windmills 25
  • 2.4 From the Arctic to Antarctica 27
  • 2.5 Rural Electrification 32
  • 3 The Birth of Big Wind 37
  • 3.1 The High Altitude Turbogenerator 37
  • 3.2 The Soviets Advance 42
  • 3.3 Victory 46
  • 4 Wind Power's Giant Leap 53
  • 4.1 The Winds of Cape Cod 53
  • 4.2 Grandpa's Knob 58
  • 4.3 A Dream Realized 60
  • 4.4 A Lesson in Economics 63
  • 5 Wind Power in the Wake of War 67
  • 5.1 The Wind Power Aerogenerator 67
  • 5.2 The Search for Tomorrow 72
  • 5.3 The British Experiments 73
  • 5.4 The Wind Power Schism 77
  • 6 Wind Power's Invisible Solution 83
  • 6.1 The Death of Windmills 83
  • 6.2 The Return of Johannes Juul 88
  • 6.3 Learning to Stall 91
  • 6.4 Gedser Economics 95
  • 7 The French Connection 101
  • 7.1 The Duke's Invention 101
  • 7.2 The Seeker 106
  • 7.3 The Neyrpic Wind Turbines 110
  • 8 Germany's Timeless Beauty 115
  • 8.1 Wind Power in Wartime 115
  • 8.2 Lighting Neuwerk Island 117
  • 8.3 The Aesthete 119
  • 8.4 The Blade Breakthrough 122
  • 9 Wind Power's Silent Decade 129
  • 9.1 The Pope's Speech 129
  • 9.2 Silent Spring 134
  • 9.3 The Gathering Storm 138
  • 10 America's Next Moonshot 143
  • 10.1 The Energy Crisis 143
  • 10.2 Back to Ohio 148
  • 10.3 The Turning Point 152
  • 11 Denmark Reinvents Wind Power 159
  • 11.1 Feared to Freeze 159
  • 11.2 More Than a Carpenter 162
  • 11.3 Let 100 Windmills Bloom 166
  • 11.4 From Blacksmiths to Businessmen 168
  • 12 The Wind King 175
  • 12.1 Heronemus's Dream 175
  • 12.2 California's Soft Energy Path 180
  • 12.3 This Is the Place! 185
  • 13 The California Wind Rush 191
  • 13.1 The Deluge 191
  • 13.2 The Danish Invasion 194
  • 13.3 Brand New Day 199
  • 14 Germany's Giant 207
  • 14.1 Ulrich Hutter Returns 207
  • 14.2 Bottoms Up 215.
  • 14.3 Our Common Future 218
  • 15 Spain's Wind Power Miracle 223
  • 15.1 A Hot Day in Madrid 223
  • 15.2 Wind Policy Push 228
  • 15.3 Denmark's Design 229
  • 16 Europe Sails Ahead 237
  • 16.1 Wind Power Reincarnated 237
  • 16.2 The Wind Power Wizard 242
  • 16.3 The Wind Virus 246
  • 17 Reigniting American Wind Power 253
  • 17.1 Picking up the Pieces 253
  • 17.2 Iowa Innovates 257
  • 17.3 The Selfish Invention 262
  • 18 India's Wind Power Path 269
  • 18.1 Coping with the Crisis 269
  • 18.2 A Star Is Born 274
  • 18.3 Gamesa Gets It 278
  • 18.4 The Path Forward 279
  • 19 China's Wind Power Surge 285
  • 19.1 The Birth of Goldwind 285
  • 19.2 The Rise of Sinovel 289
  • 19.3 The Year of Adjustment 293
  • 19.4 Sinovel's Stall 297
  • 19.5 Recalibration 300
  • 20 The Globalization of Wind Power 307
  • 20.1 Into the Fire 307
  • 20.2 The Final Frontier 311
  • 20.3 A Stable Sunset 314
  • 20.4 Around the World 317
  • 20.5 The Tipping Point 318
  • 20.6 Back to the Future 321
  • Index 329.