
Wind Energy in America
A History
Robert W. Righter(Author)
University of Oklahoma Press
Published on 30. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8061-4000-1 (ISBN)
Description
This compelling saga recounts the human effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity--from the first European windmills, to nineteenth century experiments in rural electrification, to the immense wind farms in California and the plains states that feed power grid today.Environmental historian Robert W. Righter describes eccentric inventors and techinical innovations, analyzes the politics of the power industry, past and present, and demonstrates that individuals and small businesses have made the greatest contributions to wind-energy development. Wind Energy in America also focuses on contemporary developments, including U.S. government research and regulation and the international race for dominance in the wind-turbine business. Righter explores the arguments of people and organizations opposed to the spread of wind generators--often the same environmental groups, paradoxically, that hailed wind energy as a savior in the late 1970s.
This abundantly illustrated history, free of ideology and cant, will be of lasting interest to environmentalists, scholars, and all readers alert to the need for alternatives to coal and oil.
This abundantly illustrated history, free of ideology and cant, will be of lasting interest to environmentalists, scholars, and all readers alert to the need for alternatives to coal and oil.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oklahoma
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
22 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8061-4000-1 (9780806140001)
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Person
Robert W. Righter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso and the author of several books on the history of environmentalism and conservation, including The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: American's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism.