Overview

Professor Tony Ryan is the leader of 'Project Sunshine', a far-reaching project at the University of Sheffield that brings scientists together to find solutions to the world' s problems. From photovoltaics to organic electronics, from microbial science to optoelectronics, the power of the sun is central to this new, holistic approach. Capturing just one hou' s worth of sunlight will enable us to meet the plane' s food and energy needs for an entire year. Written with PR guru Steve McKevitt, and unmissable for all popular science and history of science fans, Project Sunshine gives us a true picture of how we are going to live - and going to have to live - in the surprisingly near future.

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Author:   Steve McKevitt ,  Tony Ryan
Publisher:   Icon Books
Imprint:   Icon Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.451kg
ISBN:  

9781848315136

ISBN 10:   1848315139
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   28 February 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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'This is an important, much needed book. It shows that things can't go on as they have done: population growth, fossil-fuel burning, greenhouse-gas pollution. But it also explains that they don't need to. Technologies exist, or are on the threshold of existing, that can keep the lights on and keep food on the shelves. Without being Panglossian or diminishing the challenge, Project Sunshine offers rays of hope.' -- Philip Ball, author of Critical Mass and H2O: A Biography of Water

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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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