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I finished reading "Taming the Sun" in July of 2019. Since then, I have found myself recommending it to anyone that showed even a passing interest in the future of energy production. I write this immediately after recommending it to yet another person.
I'm definitely not an expert in the field (my speciality is information security), but I see myself as an enthusiastic interested party due to 1) being a human who lives on this planet and 2) having an interest in all things "future" (with a special interest in energy production).
Even before reading Ted Koppel's "Lights Out" (his book touched on the security-related notes of the American "grid" for me), something kept feeling more and more off about how we, humanity, treat the future of energy production. For me, that ultimately manifested in "pushing" for solar and wind very hard - possibly too much and too quickly from a strategic viewpoint. As someone who works in an industry of highly-complex interactions, I appreciate this book taking the time to address so many of the factors at play and how they all appear to interact.
"Taming the Sun" could not have come at a better time for me. It galvanized many of the positives I understood to exist around solar production without brushing past the negatives and difficulties. It was wonderful to read such a level-headed approach to the future without having to have "solar or bust" pounded into my head.
I'm definitely not an expert in the field (my speciality is information security), but I see myself as an enthusiastic interested party due to 1) being a human who lives on this planet and 2) having an interest in all things "future" (with a special interest in energy production).
Even before reading Ted Koppel's "Lights Out" (his book touched on the security-related notes of the American "grid" for me), something kept feeling more and more off about how we, humanity, treat the future of energy production. For me, that ultimately manifested in "pushing" for solar and wind very hard - possibly too much and too quickly from a strategic viewpoint. As someone who works in an industry of highly-complex interactions, I appreciate this book taking the time to address so many of the factors at play and how they all appear to interact.
"Taming the Sun" could not have come at a better time for me. It galvanized many of the positives I understood to exist around solar production without brushing past the negatives and difficulties. It was wonderful to read such a level-headed approach to the future without having to have "solar or bust" pounded into my head.