4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system, Bill McKibben writes.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment. “Instead o...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment. “Instead of relying on scattered deposits of fossil fuel — the control of which has largely defined geopolitics — we are moving rapidly toward a reliance on diffuse but ubiquitous sources of supply.”

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment: In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world's energy system. [The New Yorker] (archive)FPP'd from a comment by mazola.

4.6 Billion Years On, The Sun Is Having a Moment - Construction Forum

From The New Yorker: People have been telling stories about renewable energy since the nineteen-seventies, when the first all-solar-powered house opened on the campus of the University of Delaware, drawing a hundred thousand visitors in 1973, its first year, to marvel at its early photovoltaic panels and its solar hot-water system, complete with salt tubs in the basement to store heat overnight. But, even though we’ve got used to seeing solar pa…