Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century, Burton Richter, Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $29.99 paper (248 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-74781-3
Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air, David J. C. MacKay, UIT Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2009. $49.95 paper (384 pp.). ISBN 978-0-954-45293-3
Challenged by Carbon: The Oil Industry and Climate Change , Bryan Lovell, Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $29.99 paper (230 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-14559-6
How do we grow the global supply of energy, make it more accessible to the poor, and at the same time cut carbon emissions to near zero? And how can physics contribute? During the past quarter century, physics has had its strongest industrial impact at the intersection of solid-state physics and information technology. Following Moore’s law, computation...