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Solar revolution : the economic transformation of the global energy industry / Travis Bradford.
Lippincott Library HD9681.A2 B73 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradford, Travis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Solar energy industries.
- Solar energy--Economic aspects.
- Solar energy.
- Solar energy--Social aspects.
- Power resources.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy--in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells--is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects.
- Contents:
- The inevitability of solar energy.
- A new path on the horizon.
- Past to the present.
- A brief history of energy.
- An unsustainable status quo.
- The field of alternatives.
- Solar energy.
- Future transformations.
- Modern electric utility economics.
- The emergence of distributed economics.
- Solar electricity in the real world.
- A promising destination.
- Tools for acceleration.
- Facing the inevitable.
- Appendix: Energy and electricity measurements.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [221]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 026202604X
- 9780262026048
- OCLC:
- 65187412
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