Welcome to BurningAnswers: your guide to the solar revolution
This site explains the Solar Revolution and updates progress since The Burning Answer: the Users Guide to the Solar Revolution was published.
- Enjoy the animations explaining how a solar cell works on Quantum Child’s Play page
Learn how laptops and mobile phones work in The Burning Answer Part I - All-renewable electricity makes nuclear power redundant – see Alternatives to Nuclear Power
Read about plutonium microparticles at Hinkley Point & the history in The Burning Answer Part I - All-renewable electricity is becoming a reality and you don’t have to be rich to get involved.
Read how on the Get it from the Sun page and in The Burning Answer Part II - Read about research on a novel, high efficiency, solar panel: the Quantum Black Butterfly
It could give us roof-top solar fuel, as proposed in The Burning Answer Part III
Join the Solar Revolution
Adapted from an internet review for which many thanks:
Our civilisation faces a choice. We could be enjoying a sustainable lifestyle but we have chosen not to. In three generations we have consumed half the oil produced by photosynthesis over eight million generations. In two generations we have used half our uranium resources. With threats from global warming, oil depletion and nuclear disaster, we are running out of options. Solar power, as The Burning Answer explains, is the solution.
The Burning Answer uncovers the connections between physics and politics that have resulted in our dependence on a high-carbon lifestyle, which only a solar revolution can now overcome. Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2 led to the atomic bomb and the widespread use of nuclear energy; it has delayed a solar revolution in many countries. In a fascinating tour of recent scientific history, the book reveals Einstein’s other, less famous equation E = hf, the equation the world could have relied on.
Einstein’s other equation has given us the laptop and mobile phone, and it also provides the basis for solar technology. Some countries have harnessed this for their energy needs, and it is not too late for us to do the same.
This provocative, inspiring, passionately argued book, outlines actions that anyone and all of us can take to make an impact now and on future generations. The Burning Answer is a solar manifesto for the new climate-aware generation, and a must-read for climate-change sceptics.
UK edition published by Orion Books
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US edition published by Pegasus Books
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Contact
If you have any questions about all-renewable energy, how a solar cell works or any of the issues in The Burning Answer, please feel free to contact Keith by email. You can find his email address in the College Directory on the Imperial College London website.