Peter Seligman was one of the engineers who built the first bionic ear. His short book is available for free download from “The Melbourne Energy Institute”. It is based on (English Physicist) David MacKay’s “Sustainable Energy - without the hot air”, and crunches numbers to provide a realistic account of what it would cost to provide Australia’s energy from sustainable sources with near zero greenhouse emissions. He does not get caught up in sentiment and explains how we can get most “bang for buck”. He clearly shows that with appropriate leadership and support we could reduce our per capita carbon footprint from being the worst on the planet to near zero. (Note, this book contains LOTS of numbers.)

Mr Keith Oatley