From the Book - Fully revised and expanded
Foreword / by Mark Z. Jacobson
Preface to the paperback edition : the age of the sun begins again
pt. I. Early use of the sun. Chinese solar architecture (6000 BCE- ) ; Solar architecture in ancient Greece (500 BCE-300 CE) ; Ancient Roman solar architecture (100 BCE-500 CE) ; Burning mirrors (400 BCE-1700s) ; Heat for horticulture (1500s-1800s) ; Solar hot boxes (1767-1800s)
pt. II. Power from the sun. The first solar motors (1860-1880) ; Two American pioneers (1872-1904) ; Low-temperature solar engines (1885-1915) ; The first practical solar engine (1906-1914)
pt. III. Solar water heating. The first commercial solar water heaters (1891-1911) ; Hot water, day and night (1909-1941) ; A flourishing solar industry (1923-1950) ; Solar water heating worldwide, part 1 (1930s-1960s) ; Saving Airmen with the sun (1943- )
pt. IV. Solar house heating. Solar building during the enlightenment (1807-1850) ; Solar architecture in Europe after Faust and Vorherr (1850-1939) ; Solar heating in early America (1200-1912) ; An American revival (1931-1950s) ; Solar collectors for house heating (1882-1962)
pt. V. Photovoltaics. From selenium to silicon (1876- ) ; Saved by the space race (1971- ) ; The first large-scale photovoltaic applications on Earth (1968- )
pt. VI. The post-oil embargo era. Prelude to the embargo (1945- ) ; Solar in the 1970s and 1980s ; America's first solar city (1920s- ) ; Solar water heating worldwide, part 2 (1973- ) ; Photovoltaics for the world (1978- ) ; Better solar cells, cheaper solar cells (1955- )
