The political element is about how government policy can help or hinder technological progress and not about personal belief systems. If you are sceptical of electrification, renewable energy and electric cars, or perhaps someone you are considering buying this for is, perhaps you are wondering if it gets “political”. This may seem like it could get dry but it never does, the pace of writing the injections of humour and Griffith's very direct and present writing style keeps you engaged as he takes you on a journey through his vision. This is also carried also to energy generation from Solar PV and Wind Turbines, power is being generated far more directly than steam-powered generators. it is a reduction in the number of energy type changes that must occur resulting in large increases in efficiency. Electrification is not just a simple swap from burning things close to burning things far away. He lays out how both of these things are reduced with electrification. He plots out where Australian greenhouse gas emissions come from and shows how that will change. Griffith plots out how energy is used in Australia. A business pitch, but no, less formal than that, a business brunch. The book is written as if Saul is just having a chat, but the kind of chat where you bring graphs and plot out your vision. It is simply there is a problem, climate change, and there is a solution, mass electrification. There is no grand narrative about how we got to where we are and there isn’t a big-picture future we are heading to. This is a book you can tell was written by an engineer. It’s a future of abundance and freedom through electrification and the democratisation of energy production, and with that part of the climate change challenge sorted we can tackle the others.
The future vision this book lays out can’t be dismissed as some “bleeding heart greenie nonsense” that tells us to live like monks. The end result is cheap energy and cleaner environments, things anyone who isn’t a ghoul would want. There are up front costs to making this happen, but they’re actually not much more expensive than 1 year’s worth of subsidies we pump into the FF industry right now. It tackles the problem as a matter of engineering and economics in as clear a matter as I have ever seen. In turn steering the country away from the impending climate induced hell scape the fossil fuel industry wants us to live in.
The Big Switch has to be the most comprehensive breakdown of the current energy landscape in Australia, and how we can electrify our entire economy. I want to give this book to everyone I know. I want to shout about this book from the rooftops.
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