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Playa Lakes
Plunkett, Jerry
Pope, Albert
Popp, Victor
Popular Science, on Danish turbine
The Population Bomb (Ehrlich)
The Poverty of Power (Commoner)
Powell, John Wesley
Power from the Wind (Putnam)
Power magazine, on Putnam’s wind turbine
Pratt, Philip W.
Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, Stanford
prefabricated construction, solar homes and
Price, Hank
Price, Travis
Price-Anderson Act (1957)
Princeton University
Pringle, Paul
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, results of climate change study in
Prolix, Peregrine
Proprietors of Locks and Canals Corporation
Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) of 1978
Pursell, Carroll
Putnam, George
Putnam, Palmer
as advocate for atomic and solar power
background of
legacy of
in NASA research report
Quayle, Dan
Rapp, George
Rappaport, Paul
Rays of Hope: The Transition to a Post-Petroleum World (Hayes)
RE < C
Reagan, Ronald
Reddy Kilowatt
Reece, Ray
refrigerators, efficiency of
Reich, Charles A.
renewable energy
American energy policy, guidelines for
cheap storage
globalization, need for
issues of
lowering cost of
profitability
tax incentives
See also green technology
Resch, Rhone
Resources for Freedom, report on solar energy
Reynolds, Alva
Reynolds, George
Reynolds, Michael
Rice, Isaac
Riedler, A.
Righter, Robert
Roberts, E. A. L.
Robinson, Thomas
Roche, Mary
Rodale Press
Roebling, John
Rome, Adam
Romm, Joe
Rosenberg, Nathan
Rosenfeld, Arthur
Ross, Marc
Roswell, New Mexico
Ryan, Charles F.
Rybcynski, Witold
S. Morgan Smith Company
Sacramento Bee, on Luz property tax exemption
Salazar, Ken
Salom, Pedro
San Francisco Call, on electric power entrepreneurs
San Francisco Chronicle, on Duffy’s book
San Francisco Examiner, population growth contest
Sandia National Laboratory
Sawhill, John
Sax, Joseph
Schainker, Robert
Schatzberg, Eric
Schiff, Martin
Schlesinger, James
Schumacher, E. F.
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Science magazine
criticism of large-scale solar systems
on SERI
Science News, on SERI
Seaborg, Glenn
SERI. See Solar Energy Research Institute
The Shock of the Old (Edgerton)
Shuman, Frank
Siemens, Sir William
Sierra Club
Silbermann, Johann
Silent Spring (Carson)
Simons, Howard
Skurka, Norma
Sloan, Howard
Small is Beautiful (Schumacher)
Smeaton, John
Smil, Vaclav
Smith, Gloria D.
Smith, Gorman
Smith, Ken
Smith, “Uncle Billy,”
Smith-Putnam wind turbine
construction of
failure of
free enterprisers and
historical context of
investors in
legacy of
size of
Socolow, Robert
Soft Energy Paths (Lovins)
Soft Tech (Brand)
Solar Electric Generating Stations (SEGS)
Solar Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act (1974)
Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI)
comparison to other energy R&D projects
creation of
under Denis Hayes’ leadership
funding
goal of
location of
mismanagement of
photovoltaics and
Regional Solar Energy Centers and
renaming of as National Renewable Energy Laboratory
review of solar concentrating technologies
Ronald Reagan and
wind analysis
See also National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
solar energy systems
counterculture, and
cutting costs of
government funding of
parabolic troughs
small scale vs. large scale
solar furnace
tax credits for
Solar Failure (Lee and Donnelly)
solar homes
designs for
developers and
subdivisions for
solar hot water heaters advantages of
builder-developers, impact of
in China
competition from electric and gas water heaters
construction of
decline in use of
in Florida
Solar Lobby
Solar Power Corporation
solar power plants
and environmentalists
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
See also Luz International
solar transcendentalists
Solel
Sorrell, Steve
Southern California Edison
Southern Counties Gas Company
Spaulding, W. Geoffrey
Speth, Gus
Spoehr, Herman
Sporn, Philip
Standard Offer Four
Standard Oil
Stark, Phil
Starr, Fred
Starr Wave Motor Company
steam power
Stewart, Homer J.
Stoehr, Taylor
Stoll, Steven
Straser, Erik
Strauss,