Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; A Tribute to the Glory of the Sun; Table of Contents; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue: A Vision of the Future from the 1970s; Prologue: From the Triumph of the Iron to the Triumph of the Sun; Part 1: The Sun and Us; 1. The Legacy of the Sun; 1.1 Man in the Universe; 1.2 A Heaven of Stars, One Sun; 1.3 The Way the Sun Produces Its Energy; 1.4 The Sun, Earth, and Us; 1.4.1 Children of the Sun and Earth; 1.4.2 The Birth of Earth; 1.4.3 Asteroids and Comets; 1.4.4 Earth, Ready for Life; 1.4.5 The Last Ice Age.
1.4.6 Hephaistos1.4.7 The Great Flood; 1.4.8 The Paradise; 1.4.9 The Cradle of Civilisation; 1.4.10 Waiting Disasters; 2. Energy for Life; 2.1 What's Good Energy?; 2.2 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; 2.2.1 The Good; 2.2.2 The Bad; 2.2.3 The Ugly; 2.3 Pollution and Climate Change; 2.3.1 Pollution; 2.3.2 Climate Change; 2.4 How Industrialisation Marginalised Solar Energy; 2.4.1 The Traditional Renewable Energies; 2.4.2 The Victory Road of Coal; 2.4.3 Nuclear Power; Part 2: The New Century Is Solar; 3. The Solar Revolution of the Year 2000; 3.1 The Threat of a Nuclear War.
3.2 A Society in Doubt about Its Future3.3 Hermann Scheer: From Disarmament to Solar Policy; 3.4 The German Solar Revolution Spreading to China and the World; 4. Renewables Conquering the Mainstream of the World's Energy Markets; 4.1 The Triumph of Solar Power; 4.1.1 The World's Power Capacity from Renewable Energies Up to 2018; 4.1.2 A Shakespearean Drama in the PV Industry; 4.2 Renewable Energies for Heating and Transport; 4.2.1 Bio-Energy, the All-Rounder; 4.2.2 Solar Heat Collectors; 4.3 A Summary of Global Achievements; 4.4 Renewables around the World; 4.4.1 China.
4.4.2 Renewable Energies in the United States4.4.3 Germany; 4.4.4 Europe; 4.4.5 Japan; 4.4.6 India; 4.4.7 Brazil, Latin America; Part 3: Understanding Nature, CREATiNG Know-How; 5. Splitting the Atom and Creating Solar Technology; 5.1 Quantum Physics and Understanding the Atom; 5.2 From Quantum Physics to Nuclear and Semiconductors; 5.2.1 The Way towards Nuclear Fission; 5.2.2 The Origin of Solid-State Physics; 5.2.3 The Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Reactors; 5.2.4 A New Semiconductor World and PV; 6. Photovoltaics; 6.1 The World's Global PV Markets: How They Exploded.
6.2 State of the Art of Today6.3 R & D Attempts of Today; 6.4 Looking Back: PV Discoveries, a World of Pioneers; 6.4.1 The Discovery of the Photovoltaic Effect; 6.4.2 Towards a Practical Solar Cell; 6.4.3 The Silicon Solar Cell Development; 6.5 The Early Vision of a PV Mass Production and Conquest of the World's Power Markets; 6.5.1 US Pioneers Had a Dream; 6.5.2 Europe in the Starting Blocks; 7. The Wonder World of Wind Power; 7.1 The Development of Global Wind Power Markets until Today; 7.2 What the World Achieved in Wind Power Technology; 7.2.1 How It All Began; 7.2.2 Today's Wind Turbines.
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"With the turn of the century in 2000, the world started to turn its back on the wrong-headed developments of the past that resulted in global pollution and the misery it entails, a climate getting out of control, the threat of a nuclear war, and all that resulted from the unsustainable use of fossil and atomic resources. We have now resolutely engaged ourselves again on the path to a life in harmony with nature, with the Sun. Not only the climate but everyone is a winner going with the Sun and its benefits. Thanks to innovation and mass production, the power derived from the Sun now beats the conventional energy sector with its own strength: socio-economy. Solar energy has become cheaper than the conventional resources. The result is a booming economy that is sustainable, with millions of new jobs. Authored by Wolfgang Palz, an independent expert on energy matters and the economy, this book presents his views on a solar revolution to which he contributed."--Provided by publisher.