Solar technologies -- including photovoltaics, wind and hydroelectric turbines, and solar water- and space-heating -- are more cost-effective than ever before, and they offer an inexhaustible source of power for the entire planet. The question is no longer whether there will be a transition to a solar-based economy, but when and how such a transformation will occur. Will solar technologies be controlled by the same giant corporations and utilities that dominate the energy market today? Or will citizens seize this once-in-a ...
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Solar technologies -- including photovoltaics, wind and hydroelectric turbines, and solar water- and space-heating -- are more cost-effective than ever before, and they offer an inexhaustible source of power for the entire planet. The question is no longer whether there will be a transition to a solar-based economy, but when and how such a transformation will occur. Will solar technologies be controlled by the same giant corporations and utilities that dominate the energy market today? Or will citizens seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and reassert responsibility, for the sources and supplies of their energy?In Who Owns the Sun? Daniel Berman and John O'Connor argue that democratic control of solar energy is the key to revitalizing America -- putting power back into the hands of local people. A decentralized solar economy would bring thousands of new jobs to local communities that would no longer be exporting millions of energy dollars every year to transnational corporations and oil cartels.
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