Following the sun : the pioneering years of solar energy research at the Australian National University 1970-2005 / / Robin Tennant-Wood

• Autore: Tennant-Wood Robin
• Pubblicazione: Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (118 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 621.042
• Soggetto topico: Power resources - Research; Power resources - Social aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. White Cliffs: From laboratory to reality; 2. Why solar? Why then?; 3. The Big Dish: Looking beyond the 1990's; 4. Evolution: Solar energy research as a distinct entity; 5. The wider Australian solar scene: 1970's-1990's; 6. Solar energy research and commercial expansion; 7. Environment, climate change and solar energy; 8. Solar energy in changing times; Appendix 1. List of people interviewed; Appendix 2. Organizational flow chart; Appendix 3. One page summary from 1970's to the present ; Appendix 4. Solar energy: Explaining the science Appendix 5. Recommendations from the 1995 Expert Group on Renewable Energy Technologies; Appendix 6. Photos; References
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1970 a small group of physicists at The Australian National University decided to veer away from the accepted and expected directions in energy research and pursued the emerging discipline of solar energy. Over the next decade ANU joined a small cluster of research institutions, including the CSIRO, UNSW and the University of Sydney, to emerge as a world leader in solar energy technology. This book traces the history of solar energy research at ANU over 35 years from its origin, its sometimes controversial early stages, through its flagship projects to its current status as one of the world’s best known solar energy research establishments. It is as much a story of the future as it is a history: Following the sun is the story of how an idea to pursue what was in 1970 a new and unpopular research path has come to underpin sustainable development in the 21st Century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Following the sun
• ISBN: 1-922144-13-4; 1-922144-12-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910137634603321
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