Dawn of the Solar Age:
Prem Shankar Jha
Dawn of the Solar Age: An End to Global Warming and to Fear - 1st. ed - New Delhi Sage 2018 - 280
Our planet is growing hotter, which is mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. Yet, most of us remain chained to the belief that there is no alternative source of energy sufficiently plentiful and cheap.
Dawn of the Solar Age provides a blueprint for shifting the energy base of human civilisation out of fossil fuels and successfully reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The author shows how the commercialisation of fully proven technologies—that can provide limitless amounts of renewable energy and entirely replace all fossil fuels—is being delayed to serve the purposes of dominant corporations and nations. He studies the economic viability of these technologies and tells us how we can avert the imminent disaster that we face today. He concludes that the transition out of fossil fuels, though difficult, need not be too slow to prevent irreparable damage.
Acknowledgements
Part I: Where We Are Today
Elements of a Perfect Storm A Desperate Search for Remedies Blind Alleys and Red Herrings
Part II: What Can Save Us
Solar Thermal Revolution The Strange Neglect of Biomass Transport Fuels Are the Place to Start Limitless Potential of Biomass Completing the Energy Shift—Hydrogen from Sunlight
Part III: The Market Economy Is Not a Friend
The Inertia of the Market Economy Where the World Went Wrong Backlash: Attack on Climate Science
Part IV: Gateway to a Better World
How the Sun Will Change Our World Catch Up: India as a Case Study Retreat from War Index Index
9789386602992
Renewable energy sources
Solar energy
Atmospheric carbon dioxide
333.7923 P916 D / 103035
Dawn of the Solar Age: An End to Global Warming and to Fear - 1st. ed - New Delhi Sage 2018 - 280
Our planet is growing hotter, which is mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. Yet, most of us remain chained to the belief that there is no alternative source of energy sufficiently plentiful and cheap.
Dawn of the Solar Age provides a blueprint for shifting the energy base of human civilisation out of fossil fuels and successfully reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The author shows how the commercialisation of fully proven technologies—that can provide limitless amounts of renewable energy and entirely replace all fossil fuels—is being delayed to serve the purposes of dominant corporations and nations. He studies the economic viability of these technologies and tells us how we can avert the imminent disaster that we face today. He concludes that the transition out of fossil fuels, though difficult, need not be too slow to prevent irreparable damage.
Acknowledgements
Part I: Where We Are Today
Elements of a Perfect Storm A Desperate Search for Remedies Blind Alleys and Red Herrings
Part II: What Can Save Us
Solar Thermal Revolution The Strange Neglect of Biomass Transport Fuels Are the Place to Start Limitless Potential of Biomass Completing the Energy Shift—Hydrogen from Sunlight
Part III: The Market Economy Is Not a Friend
The Inertia of the Market Economy Where the World Went Wrong Backlash: Attack on Climate Science
Part IV: Gateway to a Better World
How the Sun Will Change Our World Catch Up: India as a Case Study Retreat from War Index Index
9789386602992
Renewable energy sources
Solar energy
Atmospheric carbon dioxide
333.7923 P916 D / 103035