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Renewable : the world-changing power of alternative energy / Jeremy Shere.
| Author/creator | Shere, Jeremy |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013. |
| Description | viii, 294 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part 1. Green gas -- Henry Ford and the search for ethanol -- Giant Chinese silver grass -- The rise, fall, rise and fall of alcohol fuel -- Gas lines and gasohol -- Back to the ethanol future -- Part 2. Sun -- The sad fate of Jimmy Carter's solar panels -- Solar Renaissance -- Sun power -- Ice from fire -- Solar reborn -- Part 3. Wind -- Charles Brush and his wind machine -- Wind power reborn -- Peppard's folly -- Wind goes electric -- A new golden age of wind -- Part 4. Earth -- Going geothermal at Ball State -- The geysers -- Hot rocks and high hopes -- Part 5. Water -- Hydropower 2.0 -- The electropolis of America -- The power of waves -- Salter's duck. |
| Abstract | An entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading. Shere begins with a tour of a traditional coal-fueled power plant in his home state of Indiana, then travels from coast to coast speaking to scientists, scholars and innovators. He immersed himself in the green energy world, and tells the stories of the most interesting and promising types of renewable energy: namely, biofuel, solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2013024087 |
| ISBN | 9780312643751 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0312643756 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |