Keith Barnham brooks no dissent in his argument for a solar-powered future but his own zeal threatens to undermine it
Why have we yet to make contact with alien civilisations? Perhaps, argues Keith Barnham in The Burning Answer, it is because they have observed our exploits with nuclear fuel and "have decided earthlings are too stupid to be worth colonising".
Barnham nails his colours to the mast from the off. Nuclear energy is not a necessary evil, it is just evil. And that goes for traditional fossil fuels and fracking too. In a post-Fukushima world battling climate change, Barnham’s answer to the burning question of energy supply is simple: harness the power of the sun. After all, "the sunlight falling on the Earth in one hour is more than enough to supply all the energy demands of humankind for one year".