Ten More Years Until Solar Booms

A little technical but this article gives the reality of attaining our energy needs from the sun, whether it be through photovoltaics or solar fuel cells that produce hydrogen. Harry Gray of the California Institute of Technology, while speaking at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, said that the sun can provide all of the electricity and fuel to power the planet. That is excellent news, but he, like the president of MIT in an earlier post, says that we need to put our collective scientific heads together and figure out how to make the renewable energy production methods cheaper and more efficient at transferring the sun's rays into energy we can use. These things have to occur in order to have the "solar boom" across the planet occur in about ten years. Once again, it's up to us to get this ball rolling. What do you say we start today?