Here Comes the Sun

I liked this book a lot. It's an approachable, comprehensive book about why we need to fully electrify and transition to renewables (solar, wind and batteries) immediately. It paints a beautiful picture of what that electrified world will look like (simple, clean, cheap, reliable), and exposes the insanity of our current system (complex, dirty, expensive, volatile).

There are many great statistics and quotes that unfortunately aren't usually cited, detracting from this book's accountability. Some of the sections are a bit too self-centered for my liking.

However, the message is clear, concise and powerful: we must stop burning things as a species, and instead harness the power of the sun.

80% of people rely on fossil fuel imports, and collectively we pay roughly $2T per year in perpetuity to the carbon barons. It's a straight up mafia, extorting the world to pay up or, in Europe after Russia invaded Ukraine, suffer in the cold.

But we can buy solar panels essentially once, which China alone has the manufacturing capacity to deliver all that the world needs, and cheaply – so cheaply that, in some places, it's cheaper to build a new solar power plant than to pay for fossil fuel imports to run existing power plants.

Then, anyone (individual, community, nation) can benefit from cheap, reliable, clean energy for decades to come.