To Catch the Sun by Lonny Grafman
Readers of To Catch the Sun learn how to design and build a photovoltaic system for:
- School rooms and community spaces
- A small home in a financially rich country
- A few homes in a financially poor country
- A tiny home or van life
- Glamping and backpacking equipment
- Laptop and cellphone chargers
- Zombie-apocalypse equipment
- Emergency supply, e.g., powering an oxygen machine during a power outage
- Isolated loads like electric gates, pumps, greenhouse fans, backup generators, and telecommunications equipment
This book is for anyone looking to build solar projects and knowledge:
- Students and teachers. Especially high school and undergraduate university levels in science, math, engineering, environmental and social justice, and technical fields.
- Community organizers and builders looking to build solar projects.
- Entrepreneurs and inventors looking to build solar products.
- Families looking to learn together
Pearce, Joshua M.: - Dr. Joshua M. Pearce received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He then developed the first Sustainability program in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education as an assistant professor of Physics at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and helped develop the Applied Sustainability graduate engineering program while at Queen's University, Canada. He currently is an Associate Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Michigan Technological University where he runs the Open Sustainability Technology Research Group. His research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and poverty reduction. His research spans areas of electronic device physics and materials engineering of solar photovoltaic cells, and RepRap 3-D printing, but also includes applied sustainability and energy policy. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and is the author of the Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781947112629 |
| ISBN 10 | 1947112627 |
| Title | To Catch the Sun |
| Author | Lonny Grafman |
| Series | To Catch The Resources |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Humboldt State University Press |
| Year published | 2021-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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