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Philosophy
2021
REFERENCES AND QUOTES
ENERGY AND ECONOMIC MYTHS“In- stead of continuing to be opportunistic in the highest degree and concentrating our re- search toward finding more economically efficient ways of tapping mineral energies- all in finite supply and all heavy pollutants- we should direct all our efforts toward improving the direct uses of solar energy - the only clean and essentially unlimited source” See Energy and the economic process on the question if solar power could be a Promethean gift 16, 17 377 I ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS – PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONSUse of solar energy. 19 trillions of tons of oil equivalent/year. “Over the eons, life has evolved to capture enough of this energy to maintain itself and the complex ecosystems that life creates. It would appear that the “order” of the global ecosystem over billions of years has reached a more or less stable thermodynamic disequilibrium.”89 “Virtually all energy captured from the sun is captured by chlorophyll. In the absence of the evolution of some alternative physiological process for capturing sunlight, it would seem that our planet cannot sustain more low entropy than it currently does for any extended period.” . “Biomass, hydroelectricity, wind, photovoltaics, wave, and ocean thermal energy are all forms of solar energy we could potentially capture.” 90To encouragement
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