Solar Story

Author : Allan Drummond
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250780973

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Solar Story by Allan Drummond Pdf

In his signature style, Allan Drummond tells the story of the largest solar plant in the world, the Noor Solar Power Plant in Morocco's Sahara Desert, in Solar Story--by relating it to the everyday life of a schoolgirl in a small village next to the plant. As we see on a class field trip, the plant is not only bringing reliable power to the village and far beyond, but is providing jobs, changing lives, and upending the old ways of doing things--starting within the girl's own family. Blending detail-filled watercolors, engaging cartoon-style narration, sidebars, and an afterword, the author showcases another community going green in amazing ways.

Author : John Perlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674010132

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From Space to Earth by John Perlin Pdf

From Space to Earth tracks the evolution of the technology of photovoltaics, the use of solar cells to convert the sun's energy into electricity. John Perlin's painstaking research results in a fascinating account of the development of this technology, from its shaky nineteenth-century beginnings mired in scientific controversy to its high-visibility success in the space program, to its current position as a versatile and promising power source.

Author : Robyn C. Friend,Judith Love Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Solar energy
ISBN : 1880599872

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A Clean Planet by Robyn C. Friend,Judith Love Cohen Pdf

This books tells the story of solar power: what it is, what it can do, and how we can use this energy to help us have a cleaner planet for the next generation.

Author : Marcus Richardson
Publisher : The Freeholder Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Solar Storm: Book 3 by Marcus Richardson Pdf

Sometimes a helping hand isn’t so helpful… Jay Cantrell, worried that his hands, injured in their trek across the Midwest (Season 1), are infected, tries to keep the secret from his group. They’d survived the journal from Illinois to Indiana, returned home to Illinois, and crossed the Michigan border—worrying about his health wouldn’t do anyone any good. Kate, tense from her harrowing trip across the country, is forced to take on the leadership of the group…while Mac prepares his compound for his friends’ arrival and runs into unexpected complications in the form of suspicious neighbors. When the Cantrell vehicle breaks down, help comes in the form of a stranger with questionable ties of friendship. He offers assistance…for a price. Can the group afford…CONTACT?

Author : Marcus Richardson
Publisher : Marcus Richardson
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Solar Storm: Book 2 by Marcus Richardson Pdf

Jay, Leah, and Kate are all tested and pushed to their limits...but will they go too far? Jay is left without a car again when his plans fall apart and he finds himself on foot, hiking through winter in Indiana to reach his daughter. Exhausted, wounded, and alone, Jay must find the will to push through and rescue his child. Kate, back in control of her own destiny, faces a taste of the reality FEMA has delivered to the major cities of America in the aftermath of the coronal mass ejection. She must pass through the fire to return home, but only if she's ready to sacrifice everything. Leah and the other students left behind become firsthand witnesses to the desperation of man and what violence that can bring. They are forced to dig deep and defend themselves, or risk becoming a footnote in a new, darker history of mankind. In a world where electricity is a thing of the past, can there be any hope for the future? After all, it's not a matter of if a CME will strike the earth, but when.

Author : Marcus Richardson
Publisher : The Freeholder Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Solar Storm: Book 1 by Marcus Richardson Pdf

Jay Cantrell will find his family…or die trying. He had the perfect life as a small-town librarian: married just over a year to his second wife, an airline pilot, he also has a daughter in college studying to be an astrophysicist. He's ready to celebrate the first year of his new marriage as he adjusts to an empty nest and a new stage in life. But the sun had other plans and sent a coronal mass ejection as an anniversary present. Awakened before dawn one morning in mid-December by northern lights that blanket the sky—in central Illinois—Jay's world changes in the blink of an eye. Flying a planeload of passengers to Hawaii, his wife Kate experiences the CME in a whole other light and must fight to stay alive every step of the way. Leah, Jay's daughter, witnesses the impact through the eyes of a student far from home. Jay must decide to stay and wait for news of his wife or leave before things get worse to find his daughter. The problem is, with no electricity, he doesn't know how bad it is...anywhere. Will he set out to rescue his daughter and make a harrowing journey through a post-apocalyptic wasteland only to find the power is still on, two states away? In a world where electricity is a thing of the past, can there be any hope for the future? After all, it's not a matter of if a CME will strike the earth, but when.

Author : Marcus Richardson
Publisher : The Freeholder Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Solar Storm: Book 4 by Marcus Richardson Pdf

When the lights go out, darkness rises. Forced to make a choice between abandoning the people who gave them shelter or saving their own lives, Kate and the group bet on themselves. They hatch a daring escape plan, involving sympathetic locals who aren’t as docile as their militia overlords thought. Up north, Mac comes to grips with what he’s done, what’s happening around him, and what will likely happen next. He begins construction of a last-ditch retreat cabin that may well prove pivotal to his—and the Cantrells—survival. But when Kate and the others steal out of Grover Creek in the dark of night, they run the risk of incurring the wrath of people who have up morals when the lights went out.

Author : Marcus Richardson
Publisher : The Freeholder Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Solar Storm: Book 5 by Marcus Richardson Pdf

To secure peace…prepare for war. The Cantrells have survived everything the world threw at them since the lights went out, but what’s coming will test each and every one of the group, pushing them to their very limits. When they struck deep at the heart of the Grover County Militia, they not only took a stand against tyranny, they took sides in a civil war. Now is the calm before the storm. They know what’s coming. They know who’s hunting them. But they have only one option as winter engulfs their northern Michigan refuge: prepare for battle. Will they have time enough to heal? Will they have time enough to build? Will they have time enough to arm and train? Will they have time enough to love and recover? Or will the fight find them at last…

Author : Lonny Grafman,Joshua Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947112627

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To Catch the Sun by Lonny Grafman,Joshua Pearce Pdf

Author : Todd Timberlake,Paul Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107182295

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Finding Our Place in the Solar System by Todd Timberlake,Paul Wallace Pdf

Details the science behind the Copernican Revolution, the transition from the Earth-centered cosmos to a modern understanding of planetary orbits.

Author : John Perlin
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781608687916

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Let It Shine by John Perlin Pdf

The definitive history of solar power and technology Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuel a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York City rooftop in 1884, or that brilliant engineers in France were using solar power in the 1860s to run steam engines, or that in 1901 an ostrich farmer in Southern California used a single solar engine to irrigate three hundred acres of citrus trees. Fewer still know that Leonardo da Vinci planned to make his fortune by building half-mile-long mirrors to heat water, or that the Bronze Age Chinese used hand-size solar-concentrating mirrors to light fires the way we use matches and lighters today. With thirteen new chapters, Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin’s classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today’s solar renaissance. This unique and compelling compendium of humankind’s solar ideas tells the fascinating story of how our predecessors throughout time, again and again, have applied the sun to better their lives — and how we can too.

Author : Michelle Levigne
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925191684

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Old Solar's Shoppe by Michelle Levigne Pdf

Jori goes to Willowood College because of a promise her father made years ago when he was a student there. She only has to put in one year and then she can go to whatever college she prefers. When she walks into Old Solar's Shoppe her first day in town, prophecies spoken in another world awaken and claim her. Lew has already lost one apprentice, and he isn't happy when the dreamstone marks Jori as his new apprentice, but he knows better than to disobey the will of Waetru. Lew and Jori become friends and he teaches her about the world called Unipuri. She believes Lew's stories are just a wonderful, complicated game. Then an ancient evil attempts to reach across multiple universes and force protective barriers wide open. Jori's game becomes more real than anything she has ever known, changing her life forever...

Author : Gregory F. Nemet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429643859

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How Solar Energy Became Cheap by Gregory F. Nemet Pdf

Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. One of the biggest payoffs from solar’s success is not the clean inexpensive electricity it can produce, but the lessons it provides for innovation in other technologies needed to address climate change. Despite the large literature on solar, including analyses of increasingly detailed datasets, the question as to how solar became inexpensive and why it took so long still remains unanswered. Drawing on developments in the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and international explanation for how solar has become inexpensive. Understanding the reasons for solar’s success enables us to take full advantage of solar’s potential. It can also teach us how to support other low-carbon technologies with analogous properties, including small modular nuclear reactors and direct air capture. However, the urgency of addressing climate change means that a key challenge in applying the solar model is in finding ways to speed up innovation. Offering suggestions and policy recommendations for accelerated innovation is another key contribution of this book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy technology and innovation, climate change and energy analysis and policy, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in the existing and emerging energy industries.

Author : Matthew Isaac Sobin
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942645207

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The Last Machine in the Solar System by Matthew Isaac Sobin Pdf

Nearly three billion years into the future, the solar system is a very different place. Earth is long gone, and the sun is a gray, shrunken dwarf. All that remains of humanity and conscious thought is Jonathan—the last machine. Created to survive Earth’s destruction by our ever-expanding sun, Jonathan witnessed the end of life on Earth. This is his story and that of his creator, Nikolai. It is also the story of the human race, which failed to disentangle its destiny from the star that gave rise to all life-forms on Earth.

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385533423

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Solar by Ian McEwan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception. Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and halfheartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. Meanwhile, Michael’s fifth marriage is floundering due to his incessant womanizing. When his professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Michael to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. But can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.