“One can justify solar-hydrogen simply on grounds of economic resource viability without any green agenda.”

—  Derek Abbott

On energy supply and solar power

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Physicist, engineer 1960

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“My starting point is as an academic who always thought nuclear was the answer, but who then looked at the figures and came to an inescapable conclusion that solar-hydrogen is the long-term future. I did not come at this as a green evangelist. I am a reluctant convert.”

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