The Burning Answer: A User’s Guide to the Solar Revolution - Rilegato

Barnham, Professor Keith

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ISBN 10: 0297869639 ISBN 13: 9780297869634

Casa editrice: W&N, 2014

Riassunto

A user's guide to the solar revolution - and why we must all get on board, before it is too late.

We are a cusp civilisation. In just over three generations, we have consumed approximately half the useful oil which took photosynthesis around two million years to produce. In approximately two generations we have used around half our useful uranium resources. We are faced with an urgent choice, the roots of which, Keith Barnham explains, lies in 1905 with the discovery of Einstein's 'other' equation, E = hf. By an extraordinary coincidence, this little-known equation, which began the quantum revolution and could hold the key to our future survival through the generation of electricity from sunlight, was discovered in the same year as E = mc2, the equation that threatens to destroy us. This book will investigate the reasons why scientists exploited the equation E = mc2 for energy generation much faster than E = hf, putting our civilisation on an ever-sharper knife edge.

But THE BURNING ANSWER is as much about solutions as problems. Through his groundbreaking research, Keith Barnham offers the controversial promise that, despite our much higher energy demands now than in earlier periods of human evolution, our sun can provide all our primary energy needs again. The sunlight falling on the earth in one hour is more than enough to supply all the energy demands of humankind for one year. This solar technology can save us from the threats of global warming, diminishing oil resources, and nuclear disaster -- provided we don't allow politics to stand in our way.

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Barnham nails his colours to the mast from the off. ...the energy fizzes of the page, and any doubters of the merits of solar power, be they scientists, commentators or policy wonks, are given a swift left-hook. (Nicola Davis THE OBSERVER)

Keith Barnham does have something new to say: he 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. Keith Barnham is fanning a necessary flame. (Peter Forbes THE GUARDIAN)

The overwhelming impression I take away from The Burning Answer is one of a slowly building but completely unstoppable momentum behind the solar revolution. This makes it one of the most exciting and genuinely hopeful books I've read in a long time. (Jonathan Porritt RESURGENCE & ECOLOGIST)

This is a book that every climate change denier and big oil executive should be forced to read before they go on TV to spout off about fracking and nuclear power and all the other crazy ways we have developed to power modern civilization. (Stephen Hunt STEPHENHUNT.net)

A tour de force by a renowned solar physicist ... Buy it, read it and help us save the planet (Jeremy Leggett, author of THE ENERGY OF NATIONS)

One of the most exciting and genuinely hopeful books I've read in a long time (Jonathon Porritt RESURGENCE)

Descrizione del libro

A user's guide to the solar revolution - and why we must all get on board, before it is too late.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0297869639
• ISBN 13: 9780297869634
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 400