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Let It Shine : The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy by John Perlin, Amory B. Lovins is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Let It Shine : The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy about?

Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuel a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York City rooftop in 1884, or that brilliant engineers in France were using solar power in the 1860s to run steam engines, or that in 1901 an ostrich farmer in Southern California used a single solar engine to irrigate three hundred acres of citrus trees. Fewer still know that Leonardo da Vinci planned to make his fortune by building half-mile-long mirrors to heat water, or that the Bronze Age Chinese used hand-sized solar-concentrating mirrors to light fires the way we use matches and lighters today. With thirteen new chapters, Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin’s classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today’s solar renaissance. This unique and compelling compendium of humankind’s solar ideas tells the fascinating story of how our predecessors throughout time, again and again, have applied the sun to better their lives and how we can too.

Who reads Let It Shine : The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy?

Author

John Perlin, Amory B. Lovins

Publisher

Novato, California: New World Library

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781608681334

Category

science

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Engineering, Science

Rating

3.88 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14