Rooftop Revolution (eBook)

How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy-and Our Planet-from Dirty Energy

Danny Kennedy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
216 Seiten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-60994-666-1 (ISBN)

Infos

We're at a tipping point in our global movement from dirty, big-industry electricity-- countries like Germany have 25% of their power grid on clean, local energy, yet the U.S is still under 1%. Solar pioneer Danny Kennedy has written this rallying cry for the solar industry and policy makers--the only obstacle to solar power is our ignorance.

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Here is the truth that the powerful Dirty Energy public relations machine doesn't want you to know: the ascent of solar energy is upon us. Solar-generated electricity has risen exponentially in the last few years and employment in the solar industry has doubled since 2009. Meanwhile, electricity from coal has declined to pre-World War II levels as the fossil fuel industry continues to shed jobs.Danny Kennedy systematically refutes the lies spread by solar's opponents—that it is expensive, inefficient, and unreliable; that it is kept alive only by subsidies; that it can't be scaled; and many other untruths. He shows that we need a rooftop revolution to break the entrenched power of the coal, oil, nuclear, and gas industries Solar energy can create more jobs, return our nation to prosperity, and ensure the sustainability and safety of our planet. Now is the time to move away from the dangerous energy sources of the past and unleash the amazing potential of the sun.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2012
• Vorwort: Wesley Clark
• Verlagsort: Oakland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: solar power, solar industry, advantages of solar energy, environmental conservation, how to preserve the environment, environmental policy, books for politicians, green business, green energy, boosting economy, climate change, global warming • solar power, Sungevity, solar industry, solar power advantages and disadvantages, advantages of solar energy, solar energy
• ISBN-10: 1-60994-666-9 / 1609946669
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60994-666-1 / 9781609946661