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008			130501s2013 caua b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781608681327 _qhardback
020			_z9781608681334 (ebook)
040			_aUniversiti Teknologi Brunei _beng _cUTB
084			_aTJ810 PER 2013
100	1		_aPerlin, John. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aLet it shine: _bthe 6,000-year story of solar energy / _cJohn Perlin ; foreword by Amory B. Lovins.
250			_aFully revised and expanded
260			_aNovato, California : _bNew World Library, _c2013.
300			_axxi, 519 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
500			_aRevision of: A golden thread / by Ken Butti and John Perlin. -- Palo Alto : Cheshire Books ; New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, �1980.
504			_aIncludes 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"-- _cProvided 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSolar energy _xHistory.
650		0	_aArchitecture and solar radiation _xHistory.
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998			_eBook _s829385 : 013965(H) c. 1_UTB _xDonated by U.S Embassy
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