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Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
Island Press
April 2009
On Sale: April 15, 2009
416 pages ISBN: 1597266493 EAN: 9781597266499 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ignited America’s Apollo
Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to
revolutionize the production of energy and thereby save our
planet. The nation that built the world’s most powerful
rockets, its most advanced computers, and its most
sophisticated life support systems is ready to create the
world’s most powerful solar energy systems, its most
advanced wind energy turbines, and its most sophisticated
hybrid cars. This will result in nothing less than a second
American Revolution. Who are the dreamers in California who
believe they can use mirrors and liquid metal to wring more
electricity from a ray of sunshine than anyone else on earth
can? Who are the innovators who have built a contraption
that can turn the energy of a simple wave off the Oregon
coast into burnt toast in Idaho? Who are the scientists in
Massachusetts who have invented a battery that now runs your
hand drill and will soon run your car? Readers will meet
them all in this book. They will learn how the new energy
economy will grow, the research that is required, and the
legislation that must be passed to make the vision a reality. This is a thoughtful, optimistic book, based on sound facts.
No one before has tied together the concepts of economic
growth and greenhouse gas reductions with such concrete
examples. No one has previously told the real stories of the
people who are right now on the front lines of the energy
revolution. The co-authors, one a U.S. Congressman who is
the primary sponsor of the New Apollo Energy Act, and the
other the founder of the Apollo Alliance, have joined their
experience, expertise, and passion for a clean energy future
to lay out the path to stop global warming and gain energy
independence.
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