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The Next Great Thing: The Sun, the Stirling Engine, and the Drive to Change the World | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Shelton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 529321
Media: Paperback
Pages: 276
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0393334031
Dewey Decimal Number: 628
EAN: 9780393334036
ASIN: 0393334031
Publication Date: April 1, 1994
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Product Description
Discusses the efforts of a group of Ohio engineers, led by William Beale, who are struggling to develop a solar-powered Stirling engine that would provide a safe, economical, and environmentally friendly source of energy for the U.S.
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To Change the World June 11, 2002
Robert Tso (So. SanGabriel, CA United States)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
An amazing and inspiring story of a small, driven R&D engineering company that struggles to convert theory into working hardware, make the bridge from doing "research" to "building products", that eventually pulls itself out of operating on the brink of bankruptcy, while offering the world a clean, renewable source of energy, the Solar Heated Free Piston Stirling Engine. Shelton does a great job in conveying the personalities, the financial and technical challenges overcome, and the dramatic events that allowed Sunpower to survive through some very trying times.
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