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Varun Sivaram

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Dr. Varun Sivaram is a physicist, bestselling author, and clean energy technology expert with experience spanning the corporate, policy, and academic sectors—most recently as Chief Technology Officer of ReNew Power Limited, a multi-billion dollar renewable-energy firm that is India's largest. He is currently a visiting senior fellow at the Columbia University Center for Global Energy Policy and was formerly fellow & director of the energy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, senior energy advisor to the Los Angeles Mayor and New York Governor, professor at Georgetown University, and consultant at McKinsey & Co. TIME Magazine named him to its TIME 100 Next list of the next hundred most influential people in the world. His books inclu ...more

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	Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet 4.08 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digital Decarbonization: Promoting Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Energizing America: A Roadmap to Launch a National Energy Innovation Mission by Varun Sivaram (Goodreads Author), Colin Cunliff, David M. Hart 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What We Can Know

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“In 2015, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk quipped, “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don’t have to do anything. It just works. It shows up every day and produces ridiculous amounts of power.”
― Varun Sivaram, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

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“Because both nuclear and fossil plants are widely used in today’s power sector, building them into the future electricity mix would be least disruptive to the status quo.”
― Varun Sivaram, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

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“Experts breathlessly prophesied that it was only a matter of time before solar PV dethroned fossil fuels”
― Varun Sivaram, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

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