Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution

Keith Barnham

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ISBN 10: 1780225334 ISBN 13: 9781780225333

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015

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Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Publication Date

2015

Language

English

ISBN 10

1780225334

ISBN 13

9781780225333

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Paperback

Condition

Used-Very Good

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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.

About 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.http://burninganswers.com

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