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Author Owens, Brandon

Title The Wind Power Story
Published Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (362 pages)
Contents Intro; Title Page; Copytight Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 The Wind Power Pioneers; 1.1 Work of the Devil; 1.2 The Danish Edison; 1.3 The War of the Currents; 1.4 The Colorado Connection; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2 The Age of Small Wind; 2.1 Networks of Power; 2.2 An Interesting Twist; 2.3 The Savior of the Windmills; 2.4 From the Arctic to Antarctica; 2.5 Rural Electrification; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3 The Birth of Big Winda; 3.1 The High Altitude Turbogenerator; 3.2 The Soviets Advance; 3.3 Victory; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Wind Power's Giant Leap
4.1 The Winds of Cape Cod4.2 Grandpa's Knob; 4.3 A Dream Realized; 4.4 A Lesson in Economics; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Wind Power in the Wake of War; 5.1 The Wind Power Aerogenerator; 5.2 The Search for Tomorrow; 5.3 The British Experiments; 5.4 The Wind Power Schism; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Wind Power's Invisible Solution; 6.1 The Death of Windmills; 6.2 The Return of Johannes Juul; 6.3 Learning to Stall; 6.4 Gedser Economics; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7 The French Connection; 7.1 The Duke's Invention; 7.2 The Seeker; 7.3 The Neyrpic Wind Turbines; Notes; Bibliography
Chapter 8 Germany's Timeless Beauty8.1 Wind Power in Wartime; 8.2 Lighting Neuwerk Island; 8.3 The Aesthete; 8.4 The Blade Breakthrough; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9 Wind Power's Silent Decade; 9.1 The Pope's Speech; 9.2 Silent Spring; 9.3 The Gathering Storm; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 10 America's Next Moonshot; 10.1 The Energy Crisis; 10.2 Back to Ohio; 10.3 The Turning Point; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 11 Denmark Reinvents Wind Power; 11.1 Feared to Freeze; 11.2 More Than a Carpenter; 11.3 Let 100 Windmills Bloom; 11.4 From Blacksmiths to Businessmen; Notes; Bibliography
Chapter 12 The Wind King12.1 Heronemus's Dream; 12.2 California's Soft Energy Path; 12.3 This Is the Place!; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 13 The California Wind Rush; 13.1 The Deluge; 13.2 The Danish Invasion; 13.3 Brand New Day; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 14 Germany's Giant; 14.1 Ulrich Hütter Returns; 14.2 Bottoms Up; 14.3 Our Common Future; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 15 Spain's Wind Power Miracle; 15.1 A Hot Day in Madrid; 15.2 Wind Policy Push; 15.3 Denmark's Design; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 16 Europe Sails Ahead; 16.1 Wind Power Reincarnated; 16.2 The Wind Power Wizard
16.3 The Wind VirusNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 17 Reigniting American Wind Power; 17.1 Picking up the Pieces; 17.2 Iowa Innovates; 17.3 The Selfish Invention; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 18 India's Wind Power Path; 18.1 Coping with the Crisis; 18.2 A Star Is Born; 18.3 Gamesa Gets It; 18.4 The Path Forward; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 19 China's Wind Power Surge; 19.1 The Birth of Goldwind; 19.2 The Rise of Sinovel; 19.3 The Year of Adjustment; 19.4 Sinovel's Stall; 19.5 Recalibration; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 20 The Globalization of Wind Power; 20.1 Into the Fire
Notes 20.2 The Final Frontier
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Subject Wind power.
wind power.
Wind power
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781118794258
1118794257