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Author : Stanley Freese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107600133
This book provides a concise, yet highly detailed, record of the processes involved in building and maintaining windmills.
Author : University of New Mexico. Technology Application Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electric power-plants
ISBN : WISC:89034066381
Author : University of New Mexico. Technology Application Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Power (Mechanics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030255942
Author : Christopher C. Gillis
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781648430633
It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating electricity. Not so. Most of these attempts fail, even with the availability of the latest technologies. In Wind Energy Revolution, Christopher C. Gillis Sr. examines the efforts to develop “small” wind generators for use at homes, farms, and ranches following the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo. Wind machines were once featured prominently on farms and homesteads throughout the Midwest of the United States and Canada during the late 1910s through the early 1950s in areas that had no access to overhead electric-power transmission lines. As a result of rural America’s connection to the power grid, many of these pioneer wind-electric machines fell “victim” to electrical power lines. Interest in wind energy resurfaced in the early 1970s when energy shortages were created by the Arab Oil Embargo, the rise of environmentalism, and the move toward self-sufficient, off-the-grid living. Early wind-electric machines were dusted off and restored back into service, while several former manufacturers reemerged, and entrepreneurs developed new designs. Political and societal interest in renewable energies—wind and solar—began to wane in the early 1980s and did not return until the late 1990s. Even so, the developments in the 1970s influenced how Americans subsequently viewed and used renewable power. Wind Energy Revolution is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive history for historians and anyone interested in wind as a viable renewable resource.
Author : Robert W. Righter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0806128127
Relates the history of the efforts to capture the power of wind for electricity, from the first European windmills to California's wind farms of the late twentieth century.
Author : Stefan A. Szczelkun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Wilderness survival
ISBN : PSU:000002149615
Author : Stefan Szczelkun
Publisher : Stefan Szczelkun
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780856590153
The third and final volume of a collection of quirky and mostly graphic data on our basic life supports. The previous two volumes were titled Survival Scrapbook Shelter and Food. This volume Energy contains a prescient set of renewable energy maps of the UK and North America. Its implied call for decentralised energy production that is in control of those who need the energy, is still relevant.
Author : Martin Pasqualetti,Paul Gipe,Robert Righter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080521039
More than ever, travelers are encountering a different sort of landscape, one not only of nature but of technology. Wind Power in View is the first authoritative discourse on the aesthetic impact of wind turbines on the landscape and what can be done about it. It is a detailed and thoroughly illustrated discussion of the issue from several different perspectives. The book also provides an overview of the status of wind energy at the dawn of the new millennium, examines some of the ongoing battles, and offers guidelines on minimizing its visual impact.Taking examples from the United States, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, and Sweden, Wind Power in View is the first book to tackle the thorny land use questions raised by wind energy's hard won respectability. What will be the future of wind energy? Will it be welcomed as savior, or will it be opposed as a new-age intrusion on open space and landscape preservation? These 11 essays, international in nature and written by objective experts, address landscape issues in creative, original ways. International focus, with examples from Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, Sweden and the United StatesThe first book to tackle land use questions raised by wind energy's hard won respectabilityAddresses landscape issues in creative, original ways
Author : Christopher C. Gillis
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781623493356
The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that bring water to the earth’s surface. Still Turning is the first book to explore the rise of the American windmill through the experience of this important company. Aermotor founder La Verne Noyes and engineer Thomas Perry developed and perfected the all-metal wind pump in the 1880s. Within a decade, the “mathematical windmill” began to dominate the market. Aermotor continued to expand and innovate. The ruggedness and simplicity of the American mechanical windmill has allowed it to outlast many newer water-pumping technologies over the years with minimal maintenance and oversight. Christopher C. Gillis traces this story and more, from the early days of the company to Aermotor’s present-day relevance as it continues to produce its iconic windmills. Still Turning is a significant contribution not only to the history of wind power but also to the history of American enterprise.
Author : Kris De Decker
Publisher : Kris De Decker
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices. Sometimes, past technologies can be copied without any changes. More often, interesting possibilities arise when older technology is combined with new knowledge and new materials, or when past concepts and traditional knowledge are applied to modern technology. Inspiration is also to be found in the so-called “developing” world, where resource constraints often lead to inventive, low-tech solutions.
Author : David Levine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520220584
This examination of the social history of modernization investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. The text highlights both the 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization.
Author : R. C. Richardson,William Henry Chaloner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719036003
Author : Kenneth George Farries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Windmills
ISBN : OCLC:213833288
Author : Steven Laurence Kaplan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501731426
Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this dependence at the point where it placed the greatest strain on the state, the society, and the individual—on the daily supply of grain and flour that furnished the staff of life. He reconstructs the history of provisioning in pre-industrial Paris and provides a comprehensive view of a culture shaped by the subsistence imperative. Who were the agents of the provisioning trade? What were their commercial practices? What sorts of relations did they maintain with each other? How did the authorities regulate their business? To answer these questions, Professor Kaplan combed the archives and libraries of France. He maps out the elementary structures of the trade and shows how they were transformed as a result of cultural and political as well as commercial and technological changes. In rich ethnographic detail he evokes the dayto-day life of merchants, millers, bakers, brokers, and market officials. He shows how flour superseded grain and how the millers overtook the merchants in the provisioning process. He explores the tension between the suppliers' need for freedom and the consumers' need for security. Even as he weaves the intricate patterns of life inside and outside the marketplace he never loses sight of the immense interests at stake: the stability and legitimacy of the government, the durability of the social structure, and the survival of the people.
Author : Marco Ceccarelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031548765