[yazr]

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

I was very disappointed with this book.

The book TLDR : Current solar technology is great but will flat-line at XX% of energy usage. We need new stuff.

In fact, this book could have been written 10 or 20 years ago. It pushes all sort of mythical solutions and still-in-lab technologies. And it hand-waves away the entire progress in solar/battery/EVs in the last 10 years.

[barbegal]

"Sustainable Energy – without the hot air" is a much better book and available free to read online at https://www.withouthotair.com/

Whilst it's a bit out of date and focuses mostly on the UK, it contains a wealth of figures and references for all possible renewable sources. It covers the topic in a neutral and non-biased way presenting the numbers and graphs to make the point that the transition to renewable will have to require a number of technologies as well as huge energy savings in transportation and heating.