Solar Technology: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Using Solar Energy for Heating, Cooling and Electricity

by David Thorpe

Solar energy is free, abundant and sustainable, with many methods existing to harness it. This guide is the essential introduction to the subject, explaining how the technologies work, how best they should be employed, and the costs and benefits of using them. It provides detailed yet accessible coverage of:

passive solar building solar water heating solar space heating other solar thermal applications (such as cooling and desalination) grid-connected photovoltaics stand-alone photovoltaics.

It also introduces the reader to larger scale applications such as concentrating solar power. Highly illustrated in full colour, this is the perfect primer for anyone who wants to work with or simply learn more about solar technologies.

256 pages, Unknown Binding

First published October 12, 2011

About the author

David is a novelist, comics writer, environmental writer, journalist and consultant, and editor. He is the winner of the 2006 HarperCollins/Saga Magazine contest to find a major new children's writer with his novel Hybrids, published in 2007. In March 2008 it also won the Lewisham Schools Book Award.

"Essential reading for the cyberspace generation."

David runs his own media company, Cyberium (a marriage of delirium and cybernetics)! He lives in beautiful Wales but was born in Robin Hood country - Nottingham. He is married to musician and composer Helen Adam.

His career includes tv and film scriptwriting, interactive scriptwriting. And being the only person in the world (probably) to hold a degree in Dada and Surrealism!

David is the author of Doc Chaos, the comics, tv scripts and novella, and has written many comics and cartoon strips such as Captain Britain, Public Servants and Managing Hell.

He was also a co-founder and committee member of the London Screenwriters Workshop, and co-wrote The Fastest Forward for Comic Relief, a feature film starring Jerry Hall.