Following the sun : the pioneering years of solar energy research at the Australian National University 1970-2005 / Robin Tennant-Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tennant-Wood, Robin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian National University.

Power resources--Research.

Power resources.

Power resources--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In 1970 a small group of physicists at The Australian National University decided to veer away from the accepted and expected directions in energy research and pursued the emerging discipline of solar energy. Over the next decade ANU joined a small cluster of research institutions, including the CSIRO, UNSW and the University of Sydney, to emerge as a world leader in solar energy technology. This book traces the history of solar energy research at ANU over 35 years from its origin, its sometimes controversial early stages, through its flagship projects to its current status as one of the world’s best known solar energy research establishments. It is as much a story of the future as it is a history: Following the sun is the story of how an idea to pursue what was in 1970 a new and unpopular research path has come to underpin sustainable development in the 21st Century.

Contents:

Preliminary; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. White Cliffs: From laboratory to reality; 2. Why solar? Why then?; 3. The Big Dish: Looking beyond the 1990's; 4. Evolution: Solar energy research as a distinct entity; 5. The wider Australian solar scene: 1970's-1990's; 6. Solar energy research and commercial expansion; 7. Environment, climate change and solar energy; 8. Solar energy in changing times; Appendix 1. List of people interviewed; Appendix 2. Organizational flow chart; Appendix 3. One page summary from 1970's to the present

Appendix 4. Solar energy: Explaining the science Appendix 5. Recommendations from the 1995 Expert Group on Renewable Energy Technologies; Appendix 6. Photos; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resouce; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 27, 2016).

ISBN:

9781922144133

1922144134

9781922144126

1922144126

OCLC:

809870479

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459877