HARVESTING THE ELEMENTS

Solar and wind now dominate new power capacity worldwide, yet few books follow them all the way from sunlight and air to bankable electricity. Harvesting the Elements does exactly that. It begins with the resource itself, radiation geometry and atmospheric boundary-layer wind, and then works through the semiconductor and aerodynamic device physics that convert energy into electrons. It follows the manufacturing economics that drove both technologies down their cost curves and closes with utility-scale project engineering and the grid-integration realities that determine whether a well-designed device becomes a dispatchable, financeable asset. Organized in five parts that pair each solar chapter with its wind counterpart, it lets readers follow one technology end to end or compare both at every stage. It is an authoritative reference for engineering students, project developers, utility planners, investors, and policymakers working at the frontier of clean power.

Device physics, manufacturing, project engineering, grid integration.

Forthcoming: In editorial.