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“Emergencies demand urgency. If you put up a field of solar panels now, they don't have to be there forever... maybe someday we will develop small, cheap, safe fusion reactors and we can take them down. But if you *don't* put up a field of solar panels now, then the world will break.”
― Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
― Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
“Sometime in the early part of the 2020s we crossed an invisible line where the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel. That’s not yet common knowledge—we still think of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines as “alternative energy,” as if they were the Whole Foods of power, nice but pricey. In fact—and more so with each passing month—they are the Costco of energy, inexpensive and available in bulk.”
― Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
― Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
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