Solar Power Bibliography

 

Beattie, Donald A., editor.  History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

 

Berger, John J.  Charging Ahead: The Business of Renewable Energy and What It Means for America.  New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1997.

 

Behrman, Daniel.  Solar Energy: The Awakening Science.  Boston: Little, Brown and Co.: 1976.

 

Berman, Daniel M., and John T. O’Connor.  Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy.  White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1996.

 

Bradford, Travis.  Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry.  Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006.

 

Branley, Franklyn M.  Solar Energy.  New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957.

 

Brinkworth, B.J.  Solar Energy for Man.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1972.

 

Butti, Ken, and John Perlin.  A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology.  Palo Alto: Cheshire Books, 1980.

 

Chapin, D.  Energy from the Sun.

 

Daniels, Farrington.  Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy.  New York: Ballantine Publishing, 1974.

 

Daniels, Olive Bell.  Farrington Daniels: Chemist and Prophet of the Solar Age.  Madison: privately published, 1978.

 

Dunford, Richard W.  “The Problem of Relevant Collectivities: Solar Energy Research in Australia.”  Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 455-74.

 

Durham, Catherine A., Bonnie G. Colby, and Molly Longstreth.  “The Impact of State Tax Credits and Energy Prices on Adoption of Solar Energy Systems.”  Land Economics 64, 4 (November 1988): 347-355.

 

Etzkowitz, Henry.  “Solar Nersus Nuclear Energy: Autonomous or Dependent Technology?”  Social Problems 31, 4 (April 1984): 417-434.

 

Eusuf, M.  Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Bangladesh: Experiences and Opportunities.  Dhaka: The University Press, 2005.

 

Feldman, Stephen L., and Robert M. Wirtshafter.  On the Economics of Solar Energy: The Public-Utility Interface.  Lexington: LexingtonBooks, 1980.

 

Fry, Gene R. Heinze.  “The Economics of Home Solar Water Heating and the Role of Solar Tax Credits.”  Land Economics 62, 2 (May 1986): 134-144.

 

Gadler, Steve J., and Wendy W. Adamson.  Sun Power.  Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1980.

 

Green, Donna Lisa.  “Power Games: the Political Use of Solar Technology in Northern Thailand.”  PhD diss.: University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

 

Green, Martin.  Power to the People: Sunlight to Electricity Using Solar Cells.  Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000.

 

Halacy, D. S.  The Coming Age of Solar Energy, rev. ed.  New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

 

Harnik, Peter.  “From Sun Day to the Solar Age.”  Sun Day Times (May 1978): 1, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

 

Harrah, Barbara K., and David Harrah.  Alternate Sources of Energy: A Bibliography of Solar, Geothermal, Wind, and Tidal Energy, and Environmental Architecture.  Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1975.

 

Hempel, Lamont C.  “The Original Blueprint for a Solar America.”  Environment, Vol. 24, No. 2 (March, 1982): 25-32.

 

Hempel, Lamont C.  “The Politics of Sunshine: An Inquiry into the Origin, Growth, and Ideological Character of the Solar Energy Movement in America.”  Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate Schools, 1983.

 

Jansen, Ted J.  Solar Engineering Technology.  Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1985.

 

Knight, David C.  Harnessing the Sun.  New York: William Morrow, 1976.

 

Kryza, Frank T.  The Power of Light: The Epic Story of Man’s Quest to Harness the Sun.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

 

Laird, Frank N.  Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

 

Laird, Frank N.  “Constructing the Future: Advocating Energy Technologies in the Cold War.”  Technology and Culture 44, 1 (January 2003): 27-49.

 

Löf, George O. G.  “Solar Energy: An Infinite Source of Clean Energy.”  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 410 (Nov. 1973): 52-64.

 

Mack, M.  “Solar Power for Telecommunications: The Last Decade.”  International Telecommunications Energy Conference (New Orleans).  New York: IEEE, 1984.

 

McConnell, Nathan S.  “Alternative or Traditional?: A History of Solar and Wind Energy.”  MA thesis: University of Montana, 2004.

 

McDaniels, David K.  The Sun, Our Future Energy Source.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984.

 

Meinel, A. B., and M. P. Meinel.  Applied Solar Energy: An Introduction.  Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1976.

 

Nelson, Mike, and Gary Shaver.  The Washington Solar Electric Industry: Sunrise or Sunset?  Olympia: Washing State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program, 2003.

 

Perlin, John.  From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity.  Ann Arbor: aatec publications, 1999.

 

Proceedings of the World Sumposium on Applied Solar Energy.  Phoenix, AZ (Nov. 1-5, 1955).  Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1956.

 

Rau, H.  Solar Energy.  New York: Macmillan, 1964.

 

Reece, Ray.  The Sun Betrayed: A Report on the Corporate Seizure of U.S. Solar Energy Development.  Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1979.

 

Scheer, Hermann.  The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future.  Sterling: Earthscan, 1999.

 

Simon, Christopher A.  Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

 

Smith, Charles.  “Revisiting Solar Power’s Past.”  Technology Review 98, 5 (July 1995): 38-47.

 

Strum, Harvey.  “Eisenhower’s Solar Energy Policy.”  The Public Historian 6, 2 (Spring 1984): 44-45.

 

Strum, Harvey.  “The Association for Applied Solar Energy/Solar Energy Society, 1954-1970.”  Technology and Culture 26, 3 (July 1985): 571-578.

 

Williams, Neville.  Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the World.  Gabriola: New Society Publishers, 2005.

 

Wofford, Elisha.  “The Energy Crisis and Renewable Energy: An Analysis of New Mexico Policy.”  MA thesis, New Mexico Highlands University, 2006.

 

Zweibel, Ken.  Harnessing Solar Power.  New York: Plenum Press, 1990.