by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1994. All rights reserved.If all the Earth's fuels -- petroleum, wood, coal, etc. -- were lumped together and burned at the rate the sun emits energy they would last, at best, four days.
What a bounteous source of power, this sun! Would that I could pry open my truck's gas cap and pump it in: fill it up with light, please!
The promise of solar energy has been homilized since I was in grade school. By now, we imagined we'd be driving solar cars and flying in solar planes. Photovoltaic cells were going to make conventional fuels obsolete.
Continued at... Solar Reflections
Rural Delivery
Energy Farming
Artwork: Frost-Covered White Birch Trees with the Sun Rising Behind.
