Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

by Varun Sivaram

Book Overview

How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation--creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.

Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless--every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But in Taming the Sun,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037688
• ISBN13: 9780262037686
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher