. . . what the author says about

The Return of The Solar Cat Book

I like it. It's a great book. So what did you expect me to say? It's actually the kind of book I'd even read, if I hadn't written it.

It's based on the idea that cats know a lot more about solar energy than people do, and that people can learn a lot about solar energy from cats. It pokes fun at people, cats, their habits and addictions, explaining the elements and language of solar energy, its history and even a little about its politics, in a gentle, often subtle way that wanders from the serious to the silly.

It's a pretty complete update and revision of a book I wrote in 1979 just after the first series of "oil crises" sank in to the American consciousness, and people began searching for alternatives. I had a lot of fun with it, and a lot of people seemed to like it. (LINK to REVIEWS & TESTIMONIALS ).

It turned out that shortly after the release of both the original version, and this new edition, I was invited to give the opening talk at the U.S. National Solar Energy Conference. So you could say that even the experts like it! (LINK to 2004 Solar Conference info )

One word of caution: some of this book might seem a little far fetched. That's because some of it is a little far-fetched. The rest of it is not, and you can rely on its technival accuracy. In the end, it turns out to be YOUR JOB to distinguish the far-fetched from the near-fetched until you've fetched at least a little bit more about solar energy than you did before reading it.

© 2005 by James Augustyn. All rights reserved.

The Return of The Solar Cat Book is published by Patty Paw Press, P. O. Box 7075, Berkeley, California 94707

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