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2 Technically, it’s a fluid known as Therminol VP-1, which is often used in making nylon and chemicals.
3 Kubiszewski,“Odeillo Font-Romeau, France.”
4 Kearney, “Parabolic Trough Collector Overview.”
5 “Parabolic Trough Solar Field Technology.”
6 San Diego Renewable Energy Study Group. “Potential for Renewable Energy in the San Diego Region.”
7 Price,“Testimony to the Public Utilities Commission of Colorado.”
8 Kearney, “Parabolic Trough Collector Overview”; K. Johnson,“Solar Power” BrightSource Energy, “About Us.”
9 Romm, “The Technology That Will Save Humanity.”
10 Goldman, Personal interview.
11 Genesis 28:17 (New International Version).
12 Lotker, Telephone Interview.
13 Bakst,“Journey to the Secret City of Luz.”
14 Reichman and Rosner,“The Bone Called Luz.”
15 Reichman, “Re: Luz.”
16 Goldman, A Working Paper on Project Luz.
17 Ibid., vi.
18 Ibid., 160.
19 Ibid., 164.
20 Ibid, 173.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid., 154.
23 Bowes, “The Experiment That Did Not Fail.”
24 For detailed descriptions of kibbutz life, see Mehta, “Kibbutz Life in Israel During the Late Sixties and Early- to Mid-Seventies.”
25 Dar, “Communality, Rationalization and Distributive Justice,” 92.
26 Goldman, A Working Paper on Project Luz, 154.
27 Ibid., 164.
28 Ibid., 180.
29 Goldman, Personal interview.
30 Aviel, “Effect of the World Food and Fuel Crisis on Israeli Policy-Making.”
31 Berger, Charging Ahead, 23–48.
32 Kryza, The Power of Light, 3.
33 Daniels, Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy.
34 For example, Daniels, “Selective Radiation Coatings.”
35 Hallacy, The Coming Age of Solar Energy, 189–207; Winston and Hinterberger, “Principles of Cylindrical Concentrators for Solar Energy.”
36 Stromberg, “A Status Report on the Sandia Laboratories Solar Total Energy Program,” 359.
37 L. Murphy, “The Use of Solar Thermal Energy to Generate Electricity.”
38 Reece, The Sun Betrayed, 31–32.
39 L. Murphy, “The Use of Solar Thermal Energy to Generate Electricity,” 9.
40 “Tax Law Generating Big Sun-Power Sales.”
41 Goldman, Personal interview.
42 Hirsh,“PURPA.”
43 U.S. Congressional Senate. National Energy Policy Act of 1989.
44 Goldman, Personal interview.
45 Cudahy,“PURPA.”
46 Goldman, Personal interview.
47 Lotker,“Barriers to Commercialization of Large-Scale Solar Electricity.”
48 Ibid., 2–7.
49 Southern California Edison Company, 1987 Annual Report, 15.
50 Lotker,“Barriers to Commercialization of Large-Scale Solar Electricity.”
51 Goldman, Personal interview.
52 Lotker,“Barriers to Commercialization of Large-Scale Solar Electricity,” 10.
53 Wood,“State-of-the-Art Solar Collectors For Clean Energy,” 12.
54 Lotker,“Barriers to Commercialization of Large-Scale Solar Electricity,” 10.
55 Goldman, Personal interview.
56 Lotker, Telephone interview.
57 Goldman, A Working Paper on Project Luz, 174.
58 Moore,“Solar Energy and the Reagan Administration.”
59 See United States Congressional hearings in bibliography.
60 U.S. Congressional Senate, National Energy Policy Act of 1989, 436.
61 Yi,“Tax Boost Predicted in Face of State’s Largest Deficit Since ’91.”
62 Richardson, “Energy Firm Pushing Hard for Property Tax Exemption.”
63 Richardson, “Tax Break Quickly Ok’d for Solar Energy Plant.”
64 Paparian, “Solar Power.”
65 Walters, E-mail Message to author.
66 Becker, 42.
67 Gray, “Tax Break For Solar Company Gains.”
68 Richardson, “Tax Break Quickly Ok’d for Solar Energy Plant.”
69 Weiss, “Everyone Loves Solar Energy, But... .”
70 Richardson, “Tax Break Quickly Ok’d for Solar Energy Plant.”
71 “Luz Casts A Long Shadow.”
72 Ibid.
73 Goldman, Personal interview.
74 Parrish,“How Sun Failed to Shine on Solar Firm’s Dreams.”
75 U.S. Congressional House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Permanent Extension of Certain Expiring Tax Provisions, 648.
76 Cable,“Solar Trough Generation.”
77 Edison International, “Southern California Edison and BrightSource Energy Sign World’s Largest Solar Deal.”
CHAPTER 15
1 Haukos,“Fish and Wildlife Leaflet.”
2 Johansen, Personal