The wind power story : a century of innovation that reshaped the global energy landscape / Brandon N. Owens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owens, Brandon N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wind power--History.

Wind power.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 347 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press ; Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2019]

Contents:

1 The Wind Power Pioneers p. 1

1.1 Work of the Devil p. 1

1.2 The Danish Edison p. 7

1.3 The War of the Currents p. 12

1.4 The Colorado Connection p. 14

2 The Age of Small Wind p. 19

2.1 Networks of Power p. 19

2.2 An Interesting Twist p. 22

2.3 The Savior of the Windmills p. 25

2.4 From the Arctic to Antarctica p. 27

2.5 Rural Electrification p. 32

3 The Birth of Big Wind p. 37

3.1 The High Altitude Turbogenerator p. 37

3.2 The Soviets Advance p. 42

3.3 Victory p. 46

4 Wind Power's Giant Leap p. 53

4.1 The Winds of Cape Cod p. 53

4.2 Grandpa's Knob p. 58

4.3 A Dream Realized p. 60

4.4 A Lesson in Economics p. 63

5 Wind Power in the Wake of War p. 67

5.1 The Wind Power Aerogenerator p. 67

5.2 The Search for Tomorrow p. 72

5.3 The British Experiments p. 73

5.4 The Wind Power Schism p. 77

6 Wind Power's Invisible Solution p. 83

6.1 The Death of Windmills p. 83

6.2 The Return of Johannes Juul p. 88

6.3 Learning to Stall p. 91

6.4 Gedser Economics p. 95

7 The French Connection p. 101

7.1 The Duke's Invention p. 101

7.2 The Seeker p. 106

7.3 The Neyrpic Wind Turbines p. 110

8 Germany's Timeless Beauty p. 115

8.1 Wind Power in Wartime p. 115

8.2 Lighting Neuwerk Island p. 117

8.3 The Aesthete p. 119

8.4 The Blade Breakthrough p. 122

9 Wind Power's Silent Decade p. 129

9.1 The Pope's Speech p. 129

9.2 Silent Spring p. 134

9.3 The Gathering Storm p. 138

10 America's Next Moonshot p. 143

10.1 The Energy Crisis p. 143

10.2 Back to Ohio p. 148

10.3 The Turning Point p. 152

11 Denmark Reinvents Wind Power p. 159

11.1 Feared to Freeze p. 159

11.2 More Than a Carpenter p. 162

11.3 Let 100 Windmills Bloom p. 166

11.4 From Blacksmiths to Businessmen p. 168

12 The Wind King p. 175

12.1 Heronemus's Dream p. 175

12.2 California's Soft Energy Path p. 180

12.3 This Is the Place! p. 185

13 The California Wind Rush p. 191

13.1 The Deluge p. 191

13.2 The Danish Invasion p. 194

13.3 Brand New Day p. 199

14 Germany's Giant p. 207

14.1 Ulrich Hütter Returns p. 207

14.2 Bottoms Up p. 215

14.3 Our Common Future p. 218

15 Spain's Wind Power Miracle p. 223

15.1 A Hot Day in Madrid p. 223

15.2 Wind Policy Push p. 228

15.3 Denmark's Design p. 229

16 Europe Sails Ahead p. 237

16.1 Wind Power Reincarnated p. 237

16.2 The Wind Power Wizard p. 242

16.3 The Wind Virus p. 246

17 Reigniting American Wind Power p. 253

17.1 Picking up the Pieces p. 253

17.2 Iowa Innovates p. 257

17.3 The Selfish Invention p. 262

18 India's Wind Power Path p. 269

18.1 Coping with the Crisis p. 269

18.2 A Star Is Born p. 274

18.3 Gamesa Gets It p. 278

18.4 The Path Forward p. 279

19 China's Wind Power Surge p. 285

19.1 The Birth of Goldwind p. 285

19.2 The Rise of Sinovel p. 289

19.3 The Year of Adjustment p. 293

19.4 Sinovel's Stall p. 297

19.5 Recalibration p. 300

20 The Globalization of Wind Power p. 307

20.1 Into the Fire p. 307

20.2 The Final Frontier p. 311

20.3 A Stable Sunset p. 314

20.5 The Tipping Point p. 318

20.6 Back to the Future p. 321.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1118794184

9781118794180

OCLC:

1039343091