Title: Project Sunshine: How Science Can Use the Sun to Fuel and Feed the World
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Publication Date: 1709
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1848315139
ISBN 13: 9781848315136
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Its an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hours worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planets food and energy needs for an entire year. Project Sunshine tells the story of how scientists are working to reconnect us to the solar economy, harnessing the power of the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 10 billion people: an achievement that would end our dependence on fossilised sunshine in the form of coal, oil and gas and remake our connection with the soil that grows our food. Steve McKevitt and Tony Ryan describe the human races complex relationship with the sun and take us back through history to see how our world became the place it is today chemically, geologically, ecologically, climatically and economically before moving on to the cutting-edge science and technology that will enable us to live happily in a sustainable future.

About the Author

Steve McKevitt is an expert in communications and consumerism. Over a 25-year career his clients have included Nike, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Sony PlayStation, Harvey Nichols, Motorola, Universal, Virgin, BT and Atari. Steve is chairman of Golden, an ideas agency with clients in the UK, Europe and the USA, and also works as an advisor to national and regional UK government on employment, skills, business innovation and international trade. Professor Tony Ryan OBE is a polymer chemist at the University of Sheffield. He delivered the 2002 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and regularly appears on Radio 4's Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox and Robin Ince, and has been on In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg.

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