The Prophet of Sun Power

<p>Frank Shuman (1862-1918) was a self-made millionaire having secured his fortune with the invention of reinforced wire glass. Yet he traded industrial comfort for visionary prophecy convinced that reliance on coal and oil was a path to global conflict. His solar thermal power plant built with meticulous engineering and boundless ambition was a working machine capable of delivering clean free energy-a blueprint for a new peaceful world order.</p><p>This is the definitive tragic story of the Sun Power Company. Shuman's genius was undeniable but his visionary success was met by two overwhelming forces: <strong>the tyranny of cheap fossil fuels</strong> and the <strong>cataclysm of World War I</strong>. The war he predicted became the agent of his destruction seizing his equipment dissolving his international partnership and burying his revolutionary technology for a hundred years.</p><p><em>The Prophet of Sun Power</em> is a sweeping biography that resurrects a lost pioneer whose technical design for the <strong>parabolic trough</strong> remains the foundation of modern solar power today. It is a powerful reminder that technological excellence is often insufficient against economic and geopolitical forces and a profound historical warning that the energy future we urgently seek was tragically already available a century ago. Approx.156 pages 28500 word count</p>