The Solar Revolution: One World. One Solution. Providing the Energy and Food for 10 Billion People.

by Steve McKevitt, Tony Ryan

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 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 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 race’s 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.

Genres: Science

371 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 3, 2014

Reviews

[Em · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very glad this ended largely optimistically, will have to catch up on how things have progressed since the publication of the book and also start eating a lot more local foods!

[Jordi · Rating 3 out of 5]

While being a very interesting book, it made it difficult to read, sometimes, the amount of data included by the authors. I enjoyed it and after finishing with a better understanding of such an important problem.

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of interesting stuff, but it felt unnecessarily long and repetitive.

[Ajit Pillai · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the kind of book that I would like to keep at my desk at all times. The book talks about everything from the history of fuels and requirement of fuels to where we are right now. The different options which could save our planet and how we could achieve a sustainable future. The book is filled with various kind of options for sustainability, where they stand right now how they could affect and eventually coming out with a basic plan which would lead us to be better human beings which will leave this earth intact. This book is a must read for everyone.