Are we on the cusp of a solar energy boom?

The total solar energy hitting Earth each year is equivalent to 12.2 trillion watt-hours. That's over 20,000 times more than the total energy all of humanity consumes each year.

And yet photovoltaic solar panels, the instruments that convert solar radiation into electricity, produce only 0.7 percent of the energy the world uses.

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Labels: Solar Energy, Solar Technology

posted by GM at 9:59 AM