Switching to Solar: What We Can Learn from Germany's Success in Harnessing Clean Energy
"Progress on the climate and energy front will require doing everything better—more sensible transport, more efficient factories and homes, cleaner forms of today's 'dirty' energy sources, and much fuller use of inexhaustible energy from the sun. Bob Johnstone has the technical background, the reportorial curiosity and energy, and the descriptive skill to explain just how much is possible on this front, based on his reports from Germany, California, China, and elsewhere.Anyone who cares about the world's energy future will benefit from reading this book." --James Fallows, national correspondent for theAtlantic, author, and former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter"Bob Johnstone is surely right about the future importance of solar power, and he explores its prospects and potential in a compelling, accessible, and appealingly positive way. This bookdeserves to be widely read." --Bill Emmott, International author and writer, former editor ofThe Economist"Bob Johnstone's bookSwitching to Solaris anextremely well-researched and well-writtenwork guiding the reader from Becquerel's invention in 1839, Einstein's Nobel Prize in 1921, Chapin's discovery at Bell Labs in 1953, through 1973 when people started to learn how to spell photovoltaic, to today, when the market capitalization of oneof the solar company's listed on the US stock market is more than twice the market capitalization of the oil company Sunoco." --Dr. Peter F. VaradiCofounder of Solarex Corporation and 2004 recipient of the European PV lndustry Association's Bonda Prize