TY - BOOK ID - 30692730 TI - History and overview of solar heat technologies PY - 1997 VL - 1 SN - 0262267985 0585372632 9780262267984 9780585372631 9780262024150 0262024152 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Solar energy. KW - Solar energy KW - Solar heating. KW - Solar heating KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - History. KW - History KW - Solar heat KW - Solar power KW - Heating KW - Solar thermal energy KW - Force and energy KW - Renewable energy sources KW - Solar radiation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30692730 AB - This final volume in a series that has surveyed advances in solar energy research since the oil shock of the early 1970s provides a broad overview of the U.S. solar thermal program. It summarizes the conclusions of each of the nine technical volumes in the series and offers lessons drawn from the program for future governmental efforts to foster specific technologies.Reading this history, it becomes clear that what was unique about the federal solar program was its attempt to create research guidelines that included commercialization as part of the expected outcome. The three contributors, all active participants in the solar project, are quite candid about what worked and what did not (and why). The result is a tale of bureaucracy and politics worth pondering as we debate the proper relationship between government and science. ER -