NOVA Season 4 Episode 12 Synopsis

Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been seriously considered as a source of industrial power. NOVA looks at this new industrial approach, such as the use of a huge windmill in Ohio, giant machines that may generate electricity from the heat of the tropical seas or from the motion of waves, and an orbiting solar power station able to beam microwaves to earth.

NOVA Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - Hitler's Secret Weapon
• s04e02 - The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs
• s04e03 - What Price Coal?
• s04e04 - The Sunspot Mystery
• s04e05 - The Plastic Prison
• s04e06 - Incident at Brown's Ferry
• s04e07 - Bye Bye Blackbird
• s04e08 - The Pill for the People
• s04e09 - The Gene Engineers
• s04e10 - The Human Animal
• s04e11 - The Wolf Equation
• s04e12 - The Dawn of the Solar Age
• s04e13 - The Business of Extinction
• s04e14 - The Red Planet
• s04e15 - Tongues of Men, Part 1
• s04e16 - Tongues of Man, Part 2
• s04e17 - Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist
• s04e18 - Across the Silent Barrier
• s04e19 - The New Healers

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.