TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prem Shankar Jha
TI  - Dawn of the Solar Age: An End to Global Warming and to Fear
SN  - 9789386602992
U1  - 333.7923 P916 D 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage
KW  - Renewable energy sources
KW  - Solar energy
KW  - Atmospheric carbon dioxide
N1  - 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
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