solar energy

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solar energy

The solar house

passive heating and cooling
  • Chiras, Daniel D
2002
An overview of natural conditioning that explains how to use passive solar techniques to heat and cool homes and offers tips for choosing a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly backup heating system.

Solar energy

  • Brooke, Bob
1992
Discusses the history, uses, advantages, and disadvantages of solar energy and examines recent advances in that field.

Fire of life

the Smithsonian book of the Sun
1981
Twenty-eight essays discuss man's past and present knowledge of the sun, and its place in the arts, sciences, and humanities.

Solar power

  • Spilsbury, Richard
2012
An examination of solar power, explaining how it is used, how it varies, its efficiency, technology, and other related topics.

Solar energy

a course of lectures contributed in the 17th International Science School for High School Students sponsored by the Science Foundation for Physics within the University of Sydney, at the University of Sydney, August 26, September 6, 1974
  • Butler, Stuart Thomas
1975
Nine lectures concerning specialized aspects of solar energy such as thermal conversion, the nature of solar energy, and heat transfer and storage.

Solar energy

  • Zuchora-Walske, Christine
2013
Discusses how solar energy could be used to replace fossil fuels.

Power play

  • Dixon, Franklin W
1991
When a powerful new solar energy cell is invented and a company employee turns up dead, Frank and Joe discover the dark secret behind the solar power source.

Sun power

  • Smith, Norman F
1976
A simple explanation of solar energy and its uses.

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