Ten Technologies To Save The Planet by Chris Goodall

Once again, I have copied someone else's review as it more or less mirrored by own thoughts. The usual copyright caveats apply. On Amazon you can "look inside" so I won't repeat the chapter headings which outline Goodall's Ten Technologies. Whereas MacKay's "Sustainable........" which is discussed at length on this forum contains many, many references, Goodall leaves all the research out and leaves it up to the reader to speculate whether these technologies would actually save the planet. Only £6.94 delivered from Amazon. I am not sure how different "Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate" is or whether it is just another revision.

One to borrow if you can rather than buy but the price is low enough to get for your library if you wish (I did).

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By John Carr (La Ciotat, France) - See all my reviews

This is an interesting short book which samples a variety of ideas for global problems. The first three chapters cover the classical alternative energy technologies of wind, solar and sea power. Among the diverse topics in remaining chapters are thermally efficient housing, electric cars and carbon dioxide sequestration.

In reading the book, I learned a lot and was motivated to explore further the ideas, so it is a good introduction to the subject areas. It is a shame that the source data in the book is not referenced; in fact there are no references at all, so any follow up reading could not start here. Sometimes the text is rather repetitive, making it clear the author has strong views.

As is unfortunately not rare, the author ignores completely the emerging economies of China and India. Sadly here are only solutions for the affluent Westerner.

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