ENGLISH

History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies

By Donald A. Beattie

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0262024152, 9780262024150
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8058156 bytes)
Series
Solar Heat Technologies
Pages
250\291
Topic
Technique Energy
Time added
2013-05-14 23:33:48
Топливно-энергетический комплекс;Гелиоэнергетика

Description

This final volume in a series that has surveyed advances in solar energy research since the oil shock of the early 1970s provides a broad overview of the U.S. solar thermal program. It summarizes the conclusions of each of the nine technical volumes in the series and offers lessons drawn from the program for future governmental efforts to foster specific technologies.Reading this history, it becomes clear that what was unique about the federal solar program was its attempt to create research guidelines that included commercialization as part of the expected outcome. The three contributors, all active participants in the solar project, are quite candid about what worked and what did not (and why). The result is a tale of bureaucracy and politics worth pondering as we debate the proper relationship between government and science.

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