The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future

by Hermann Scheer

The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industrial dislocation and economic collapse. Even before then, the conflicts it causes in the Middle East and elsewhere will be frighteningly exacerbated. The alternative renewable energy from renewable sources - above all, solar. Substituting renewable for fossil resources will take a new industrial revolution to avert the worst of the damage and establish a new international order. It can be done, and it can be done in time. The Solar Economy , by one of the world's most effective analysts and advocates, lays out the blueprints, showing how the political, economic and technological challenges can be met using indigenous, renewable and universally available resources, and the enormous opportunities and benefits that will flow from doing so.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[mylesgoins]

(To-be-read)

Added because the books on Energy I have read and on my list, namely Vaclav Smil's Growth and Energy by Richard Rhodes, are conspicuously thin on photovoltaics, which happens to be a major player in the green energy transition. Those authors are much more interested in the industrial revolution of the 19th century, which is covered in detail. Wind turbines got much more coverage in Growth, probably because their the growth of their dimensions is easily measured compared with somewhat commoditized and heavily cost-driven solar, which has been booming the last few years. I hope this book can help me understand if this boom will continue.

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[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good material!!!

[Rouqayya Alzaabi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book to introduce solar energy as the solution to the energy dilemma