Name: Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability (en Inglés)
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Author: Philip Warburg
ISBN: 9780807000496

portada Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Beacon Pr

Autor

Philip Warburg

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0807000493

ISBN13

9780807000496

Categorías

Industrias energéticas y servicios públicos

Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability (en Inglés)

Philip Warburg (Autor) · Beacon Pr · Tapa Blanda

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Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than in Cloud County, Kansas, where the soaring turbines of the Meridian Way Wind Farm are boosting incomes and bringing green jobs to a community that has, for decades, watched its children drift away. In Harvest the Wind, Philip Warburg brings readers face-to-face with the people behind the green economy–powered resurgence in Cloud County and communities like it across the United States. This corner of Kansas is the first stop on an odyssey that introduces readers to farmers, factory workers, biologists, and high-tech entrepreneurs—all players in a transformative industry that is taking hold across America and around the globe. In this illuminating book, Warburg reveals both the remarkable growth of a breakthrough technology and the formidable challenges it faces. He visits epicenters of anti-wind opposition as well as communities that have embraced wind farms as neighbors. He guides readers through an Iowa turbine assembly plant that is struggling to compete in a global marketplace dominated by European and Chinese manufacturers. And he looks at the thousands of miles that wind-generated power will need to travel to reach American consumers. Harvest the Wind is an earthly antidote to loftier treatises on global warming and green energy. By showing us how practical solutions are being implemented at the local level, Warburg offers an inspirational look at how we can all pursue a saner and more sustainable energy future—while at the same time investing in the nation’s infrastructure and jumpstarting its economy.From the Hardcover edition.