Ray Block is a Sydney based economist and economic historian. He sees a relationship between the transformational innovations now opening up, centered around low carbon energy. This book Renewable Energy Transformation is a very readable report in non technical language on key developments in major industries updated to June 2011. "If you’re looking for a fiery polemic, larded with rhetoric but short on facts, you’ve picked up the wrong book. Ray Block has written a painstakingly precise study on renewable energy in the United States, China and the European Union. Thoroughly detailed, but still crisp and incisive enough to be readable." Foreword by The Hon. Bob Carr