01724cam a2200229 4500 283112212 TxAuBib 20070920120000.0 070920s1984||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u AkA AkA TxAuBib Frontier Energy : Appropriate Technology in Alaska, 1979-1984. Alaska : Dept. of Community & Regional Affairs, 1984. 176 p : ill. (some col.) ; softcover ; 28 cm. The U. S. Department of Energy's Appropriate Technology Small Grants program was a three-year program that gave individuals, companies and governments the opportunity to devise and apply various appropriate technologies, principally for energy-related projects. "Appropriate Technology" is a term coined by Ernest Friedrich Schumacher, of Germany, student of Oxford University; economist with the British National Coal board from 1950-1970; United Nations economic advisor to Third World countries; and outspoken defender of the poor. After observing that the introduction of modern technologies did not always bring benefits to the poor of underdeveloped countries, he described a new kind of economic development, based on a technology "more productive than the (local) technology but immensely cheaper than the...technology of modern industry.". 20070920. Alaska. Solar energy Research Alaska. Hydroelectric generators Research Alaska. Wind power Research Alaska. Energy Research Alaska. Alaska.; Department of Community and Regional Affairs, Dept. of Community and Regional Affairs.