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Wind Energy for the Rest of Us - A Comprehensive Guide to Wind Power and How to Use it (Paperback)
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Wind Energy for the Rest of Us - A Comprehensive Guide to Wind Power and How to Use it (Paperback)
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Wind Energy for the Rest of Us straddles two--or more--worlds. The
book is about wind energy. It's not just about small wind turbines.
It's not just about large wind turbines. It's about the depth and
breadth of wind energy, encompassing more than either type of wind
turbine. It includes water-pumping windmills and sailing ships.
It's a sprawling book, one minute discussing how to install small
wind turbines safely, the next explaining how farmers in Indiana
can earn millions by installing their own multimegawatt wind
turbines. If it's a book hard to categorize, that suits its author,
Paul Gipe, who likes to think he's hard to categorize after four
decades at the frontiers of renewable energy. His book tells the
story of modern wind energy in all its complexity and introduces a
North American audience to the trailblazing electricity rebels who
have launched a renewable energy revolution in Europe. The book
debunks novel wind turbines their promoters claim will generate
electricity "too cheap to meter," and rebukes revisionist
historians who falsely argue that it was the aerospace industry
that delivered today's modern wind turbines. Gipe explains why new
wind turbines are part of a silent revolution that is changing the
way we use wind energy. This revolution doesn't garner headlines,
but is making wind turbines more cost-effective in more places than
ever before, lessening the need for new transmission lines,
obviating the need for storage, and fueling rapid growth. Gipe
refutes many common myths surrounding wind energy and argues
persuasively that wind turbines are productive, effective, and
environmentally sound. Gipe argues that wind energy is too
important to be left to electric utilities and their subsidiaries
alone. Wind energy is also for the rest of us, he says. It is our
resource. We can develop it and we can own it--ourselves.
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