Harnessing the sun
As a green entrepreneur, Jeremy Leggett has spent the past ten years fighting an enduring myth: solar panels don’t work in Britain. Granted, they work better in Spain. But at solarcentury’s office in London on a distinctly cloudy October day, the roof is gathering enough energy to power all the firm’s computers. “We could have zero-carbon buildings,” he says. Most of us would be content with one successful career; Leggett has three. After studying earth sciences at the University of Oxford, he became a researcher in the history of the oceans. Ironically, his research was largely funded by oil companies, BP and Shell included. But, in the mid1980s, reading the first papers on global warming, he became concerned.
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