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Wind Energy for the Rest of Us straddles two?or more?worlds. The book is about wind energy. It?s not just about small wind turbines. It?s not just about large wind turbines. It?s about the depth and breadth of wind energy, encompassing more than either type of wind turbine. It includes water-pumping windmills and sailing ships. It?s a sprawling book, one minute discussing how to install small wind turbines safely, the next explaining how farmers in Indiana can earn millions by installing their own multimegawatt wind turbines. If it?s a book hard to categorize, that suits its author, Paul Gipe, who likes to think he?s hard to categorize after four decades at the frontiers of renewable energy. His book tells the story of modern wind energy in all its complexity and introduces a North American audience to the trailblazing electricity rebels who have launched a renewable energy revolution in Europe. The book debunks novel wind turbines their promoters claim will generate electricity?too cheap to meter,? and rebukes revisionist historians who falsely argue that it was the aerospace industry that delivered today?s modern wind turbines. Gipe explains why new wind turbines are part of a si

Author

Gipe, Paul

Publisher

wind-works.org

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780997451818

Subjects

Engineering, Stem

Rating

4.4 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14