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02649aam a2200373 i 4500 001 3E31F6AE01AE11E4B73692EFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140702010026 008 130501s2013 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013010030 020 $a 1608681327 (hardback) 020 $a 9781608681327 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d OCLCO $d IEB $d IH3 $d CHVBK $d OCLCF $d LMR $d UPM $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d LANGC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TJ810 $b .B88 2013 100 1 $a Perlin, John. 240 10 $a Golden thread 245 10 $a Let it shine : $b the 6,000-year story of solar energy / $c John Perlin ; foreword by Amory B. Lovins. 250 $a Fully revised and expanded 264 1 $a Novato, California : $b New World Library, $c c2013. 300 $a xxi, 519 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Revision of: A golden thread / by Ken Butti and John Perlin. -- Palo Alto : Cheshire Books ; New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1980. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-495) and index. 520 $a "Unprecedented gas prices, heat waves and droughts, climate change, Solyndra - all make "alternative" sources of energy contemporary areas of activism, controversy, lobbying, and legislation. Yet few know that the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and Romans used solar energy in their architecture; that Galileo and da Vinci both planned uses for the power of the sun; and that by 1918, there were more than 4,000 solar water heaters in California. The history of solar architecture and energy technologies gives readers an epiphany-producing sense of its future. Detailing a realistic alternative to fossil fuels, in illustrations the New York Times called "especially fine," and prose Library Journal termed "highly readable," Let It Shine shows that there is nothing - and plenty - new under the sun"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Details the history of strategies to use the power of the sun for human benefit, from the architecture of the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and Romans to the widespread use of solar water heaters in California at the turn of the 20th century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Early use of the Sun -- Power of the Sun -- Solar water heating -- Solar house heating -- Photovoltaics -- The post-oil embargo era. 650 0 $a Solar energy $x History. 650 0 $a Architecture and solar radiation $x History. 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214042100.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220302013753.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20140702011201.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3E31F6AE01AE11E4B73692EFDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search