• Powering Up

  • Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain
  • By: Alan Finkel
  • Narrated by: Silas Aiton
  • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
  • 1.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Powering Up

By: Alan Finkel
Narrated by: Silas Aiton
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Publisher's summary

The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel shows how to remove the barriers that prevent nations transforming from petrostate to electrostate.

Finkel considers the entire supply chain, from raw materials through power infrastructure, the workforce, transportation and household customers. He reveals the outlines of a new geo-economic order and explains in persuasive, practical terms how we can get there.

If governments, investors, industry and consumers get this right over the next three decades, history will judge us as the generation who ushered in the Electric Age and helped to save the planet. The world will be transformed – with Australia, if we seize the opportunity, as a global leader.

Longlisted for the Australian Business Book Award 2023

©2023 Alan Finkel (P)2024 Bolinda Publishing

Critic reviews

'Powering Up provides a stirring call to action ... Finkel’s treatment of this complex topic – fact-based, compelling, supported by scientific and engineering insight – offers a foundation for further development of policies to engage stakeholders and accelerate transformation.' (Julian V McCarthy, Australian Book Review)
'... everyone interested in the energy transition should read.’ (The Conversation)
‘Finkel gives us an informed glimpse of the scale of the task, but all with studied optimism. Sobering, but positive.’ (Steven Carroll, The Age)

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Data overload - Not for listening

This sounds like a textbook for engineers, full of tables and graphs. Not suitable for an audio book. I gave up after listening for about 2 hours.

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