The Burning Answer
A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution
Author: Professor Keith Barnham and Keith Barnham
A user's guide to the solar revolution - and why we must all get on board before it is too late.
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A user's guide to the solar revolution - and why we must all get on board before it is too late.
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Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. Our thirst for energy has led to threats from global warming, nuclear disaster and conflict in oil-rich countries.
We are running out of options.Solar power, Keith Barnham argues, is the answer. In this eye-opening book, he shows how a solar revolution is developing based on one of Einstein's lesser known discoveries, one that gave us laptop computers and mobile phones. An accessible guide to renewable technology and a hard-hitting critique of the arguments of solar sceptics, THE BURNING ANSWER outlines a future in which the fuel for electric cars will be generated on our rooftops. It is, above all, an impassioned call to arms to join the solar revolution before it's too late.Critic Reviews
“A tour de force by a renowned solar physicist ... Buy it, read it and help us save the planetKeith Barnham cuts through the current morass of fossil-fuel and nuclear lobbyists' negative propaganda with a clear and original vision for solar power. It is a bold vision, a necessary one, and the world needs to be fired up about it. - GUARDIANA scorching diatribe ... the energy fizzes off the page, and any doubters of the merits of solar power, be they scientists, commentators or policy wonks, are given a swift left-hook - OBSERVEROne of the most exciting and genuinely hopeful books I've read in a long time - RESURGENCE”
A tour de force by a renowned solar physicist ... Buy it, read it and help us save the planet
Keith Barnham cuts through the current morass of fossil-fuel and nuclear lobbyists' negative propaganda with a clear and original vision for solar power. It is a bold vision, a necessary one, and the world needs to be fired up about it. - GUARDIANA scorching diatribe ... the energy fizzes off the page, and any doubters of the merits of solar power, be they scientists, commentators or policy wonks, are given a swift left-hook - OBSERVEROne of the most exciting and genuinely hopeful books I've read in a long time - RESURGENCEAbout the Author
Keith Barnham is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He started his research career in experimental particle physics working in research laboratories at CERN in Geneva and the University of California Berkeley. Mid-career he switched to researching solar energy and invented a solar cell with three times the efficiency of today's roof-top panels. He lives with his wife, the poet Claire Crowther, in Somerset.
Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. Our thirst for energy has led to threats from global warming, nuclear disaster and conflict in oil-rich countries. We are running out of options.Solar power, Keith Barnham argues, is the answer. In this eye-opening book, he shows how a solar revolution is developing based on one of Einstein's lesser known discoveries, one that gave us laptop computers and mobile phones. An accessible guide to renewable technology and a hard-hitting critique of the arguments of solar sceptics, THE BURNING ANSWER outlines a future in which the fuel for electric cars will be generated on our rooftops. It is, above all, an impassioned call to arms to join the solar revolution before it's too late.
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