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17 Brand, Whole Earth Discipline, 1.
18 “Secretary Chu Announcement.”
19 Reich, The Greening of America, 350.
20 Obama, “Remarks by the President.”
21 “Earth’s Boundaries?”
22 Winner, The Whale and the Reactor, 9.
PART II: WHAT WAS
CHAPTER 5
1 Nye, Consuming Power.
2 Rosenberg and Trajtenberg, “A General-Purpose Technology at Work.”
3 Nye, Consuming Power, 72–73.
4 Rosenberg and Trajtenberg, “A General-Purpose Technology at Work,” 62.
5 Nye, Consuming Power.
CHAPTER 6
1 Webb, The Great Plains, 346.
2 Righter, Wind Energy in America, 26.
3 Torrey, Wind Catchers, 103.
4 Webb, The Great Plains, 341.
5 Murphy, The Windmill.
6 Rosenberg and Trajtenberg, “A General-Purpose Technology at Work.”
7 Righter, Wind Energy in America, 25.
8 Perry, Experiments with Windmills.
9 Edwards and Edwards, Batavia.
10 Perry, Experiments with Windmills, 20–30.
11 Ibid., 38–44.
12 See, for example, Walker, “Reliability and the Future of Wind Energy.”
13 Baker, Field Guide to American Windmills.
14 Perry, Experiments with Windmills, 23–25.
15 Gipe, Wind Power, 248.
16 Smeaton, Experimental Enquiry.
17 Perry, Experiments with Windmills.
18 Baker, Field Guide to American Windmills.
19 Ibid., 36.
20 Baker, Field Guide to American Windmills, 38.
21 Kutleb,“Can Forests Bring Rain?”
22 Smith,“Rain Follows the Plow.”
23 Aughey, Sketches of the Physical Geography, 44.
24 Wilber, The Great Valleys and Prairies, 73.
25 Hansen and Libecap, “Small Farms, Externalities.”
26 A. N. Williams, The Water and the Power, 339.
27 Stegner, The American West as Living Space.
28 A. N. Willams, The Water and The Power, 339.
29 Boyer, et al., The Enduring Vision, 607.
30 Smith,“Rain Follows the Plow.”
31 Webb, History as High Adventure, 37.
32 Barbour, Report of the State Geologist.
33 Flint, American Farming and Stock Raising, 537.
34 Barbour, Report of the State Geologist, 34.
35 Knopp, “Mammoth Bones,” 189.
36 Barbour, Report of the State Geologist, 37.
37 Murphy, The Windmill, 138.
38 Barbour, Report of the State Geologist, 30–35.
CHAPTER 7
1 Black, Petrolia.
2 Ibid., 20.
3 Ibid., 21.
4 Eaton, Petroleum, 214.
5 Yergin, The Prize, 11–12.
6 Black, Petrolia, 18.
7 Robert Dennis Collection.
8 Black, Petrolia, 112–114.
9 Yergin, The Prize, 12.
10 Stein, When Technology Fails, 30.
11 Black, Petrolia.
CHAPTER 8
1 Levy, 920 O’Farrell Street, 185.
2 Wolfe, Rube Goldberg.
3 Prospectus for the Wave Power and Air Compressing Company.
4 Duffy, “Wave-Power Air-Compressor.”
5 Prospectus for the Wave Power and Air Compressing Company, 2.
6 Wave Motor Patent Database.
7 A common dictionary definition. See, for example, www.yourdictionary.com/rube-goldberg.
8 Wolfe, Rube Goldberg, 38.
9 Duffy, “Wave-Power Air-Compressor,” 1.
10 “Destitute of Meaning,” Feb. 27, 1898, 4.
11 “A Wife’s Appeal.”
12 Prospectus for the Wave Power and Air Compressing Company, 2.
13 “The Best Idea of All.”
14 “Notes by a Roving Contributor—13,” 367.
15 “‘Edison Said Only a Few Years Since’ [advertisement].”
16 Bennett, “Wave-Motors,” 251.
17 Melville,“The Engineer and the Problem,” 820.
18 “Reynolds Wave Motor and the Inventors.”
19 Ibid.
20 California Wave Motor Prospectus.
21 Reynolds,“Pile Cleaner and Protector.”
22 Wallace, “Unlimited Electric Power,” 289.
23 “A Smokeless City.”
24 “Wave Power Chiefs Quit.”
25 “Redondo Pier Sinks in Sea.”
26 The San Francisco Call, March 28, 1909.
27 Prospectus for the Wave Power and Air Compressing Company, 3.
28 Dalton, Alcorn, and Lewis, “Case Study Feasibility Analysis,” 443–455.
29 S. Williams, “U.K. Tries to Catch a Wave.”
30 California Wave Motor Prospectus, 1.
CHAPTER 9
1 J. C. Williams, Energy and the Making of Modern California, 82–86.
2 E. D. Adams, Niagara Power, 167.
3 “Pneumatic Clocks,” New York Times.
4 “Pneumatic Clocks,” Scientific American, 19.
5 Cole, “Underground Social Capital.”
6 Steenson, “A Regressive Glossary of the Poste Pneumatique.”
7 Kennedy, Compressed Air, 50.
8 Ayers,