PENGUIN CANADA ON SALE AUGUST 26, 2014 The Solar Revolution
One World. One Solution. Providing the Energy and Food for 10 Billion People.
Steve McKevitt and Tony Ryan
The Solar Revolution reveals for the first time how
cutting-edge science can use the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 10 billion people. It’s an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hour’s worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet’s food and energy needs for an entire year.
The Solar Revolution tells the story of how scientists are
Icon Books 9781848316553 Paperback 5x7¾ 320 pages Popular Science $18.00 CDN
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 ‘fossilized 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 race’s complex relationship with the sun and take us back through history to see how our world because 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
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