The Power of The Sun
A Documentary By Nobel Laureates Walter kohn and Alan Heeger
Hosted and Narrated by John Cleese

Saturday Oct. 7 – 12:00pm
Screening Ends at 1:20pm

As fossil fuels run out, the search for renewable sources of energy becomes more urgent. The documentary” The Power of the Sun” is about the discovery of the power of light, the genesis of solar energy technologies and their vast and promising potential. It begins with the findings of Isaac Newton and other early visionaries, moving to the groundbreaking work in 1905 of Albert Einstein on photons, and the work at Bell Laboratories in the 1950s where the first silicon solar cell was produced.

The Power of the Sun gives us insight into the clean logic of solar energy, its efficiency and many applications. Executive Producer Professor Walter Kohn, UCSB Nobel Laureate, worked with director/writer David Kennard and others to construct this optimistic and timely presentation. John Cleese serves as host and narrator, helping make the material accessible for all audiences.

Why You Should See This Film

The film is a scientific morality tale: how, starting from the most pure and basic science, through stages of brilliant applied science and engineering, there emerges one of the most promising multi billion dollar technologies to help deal with one of the great challenges of our time: energy. That is, finding economically realistic, clean and safe energy sources to replace diminishing cheap fossil fuels, while energy demands of the developing world continue to grow rapidly.