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Title: Golden Thread: Twentyfive Hundred Years of Solar Architecture and Technology by Ken Butti, John Perlin ISBN: 0-917352-07-6 Publisher: Cheshire Books Pub. Date: June, 1980 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $19.95

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Summary: Energy Policy & Human Nature
Comment: I found this in a used bookstore while I was on the road throughout California installing solar drinking water distillers that a bitter, old curmugeon and I built. He was apparently wrecked emotionally by the fact that no one was interested in solar thermal technology in the eighties. I was fascinated by the fact that, as we worked and philosophized, we caught the play-by-play of the Gulf War on television. An American Solar Energy Society editorial lamented that US foreign aid to Israel was building "California Ranch Style" homes on the West Bank complete with solar water heaters while California refused to even subsidize research let alone tax incentives for such energy conservation measures which is what wrecked the American solar thermal industry.

Long before glass, construction was perfected that offered comfortable housing based upon proper site orientation and architectural principles apparently long since forgotten.

Photos of early Los Angeles with Day & Night brand solar + natural gas water heaters on roof after roof.

This is a book for honest to goodness leaders to ponder and then roll up their sleeves and start changing the world.

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