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The solar economy: renewable energy for a sustainable global future

2003; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 40; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.40-3426

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Hermann Scheer,

Tópico(s)

Global Energy and Sustainability Research

Resumo

From fossil fuels to solar power: The power of the pyromaniacs Fossil resource dependency - how economic processes have come adrift from their environmental and social bases Global competition in place of global environmental policy The origins of the fossil-fuel economy Accelerating change and global displacement Business unbound - cutting loose from nature and society Reconnecting business and society through solar resources From the political to the economic solar manifesto. PART I CAPTIVITY OR LIBERATION: FOSSIL FUEL AND SOLAR SUPPLY CHAINS COMPARED: ensnared by fossil supply chains exploiting solar resources - the new political and and economic freedom. PART II THE PATHOLOGICAL POLITICS OF FOSSIL RESOURCES: the 21st-century writing on the wall - the political cost of fuel and resource conflict the distorting effects of fossil supply chains the mythology of fossil energy. PART III THROWING OFF THE FOSSIL SUPPLY CHAINS: energy beyond the grid the untapped wealth of solar resources The profitability of renewable energy and resources. PART IV TOWARDS A SOLAR ECONOMY: exploiting solar energy Regionalization of the global economy through solar resources the visible hand of the sun - blueprint for a solar world

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