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Dawn
of the
Solar Era
A
Wake Up
Call!
BioFuels:
Science or
Fiction?
How can we turn
sun radiation
into automotion?
Personal
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100% Solar Powered
America must commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and other clean sources within 10 years.   [Al Gore, July 17, 2008]

To meet this challenge, Al Gore has gotten a big boost from oilman T. Boone Pickens:

IT'S TIME TO STOP AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL
America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.

I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil.

Al Gore's challenge tackles the most critical source of greenhouse gas emissions. But directly alongside the threat of global warming is the impending peak of global oil production. In the near future we will launch a plan for replacing oil with solar energy for routine travel without resorting to the tragedy of trashing our soils and water reserves for the sake of hopelessly inadequate biofuels production.

Sometimes complex truths become more clear when we put them in very simple terms. Around the world, political leaders are still living in the delusion that we have time on our hands to find sensible alternatives to oil. But global oil production has peaked.

A significant example of collapsing oil production is Cantarell, recently the largest oil field in the Western Hemisphere. From over 2 million barrels per day in 2004-2005, Cantarell is now producing at a fraction of its peak.

Technology can help – and on this website various energy technologies are examined (sitemap). But humanity needs more than technology – we need high leverage methodologies as well. And, at the very least we need a new way of thinking about the impact of fossil fuels on the environment.

We had our chance to evolve gradually toward a sustainable economy, but that opportunity has been squandered. Now primary ecosystems services are collapsing and we must accelerate our response, manifesting a revolution – more precisely, a SolaRevolution™.

University students are invited to participate with us in this SolaRevolution™ under the guidance of Solar Nations™. Contact us for more information.

Wake Up!!!

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