By nearly all expert accounts, the world is either at peak oil production now, or will be sometime within the next five years. Even if we had no concerns about the health of the environment, including climate change, we would need to be looking for and rapidly developing new energy sources to power our civilization.
We should consider ourselves extremely fortunate to have a relatively safe nuclear power plant only ninety three million miles from earth. Equally fortunate we are that according to the laws of nature,when a proton strikes a semiconductor, an electron is released.
Our development of solar energy is still in an infantile state, but the potential, as always, is enormous. New technologies are appearing rapidly, including photovoltaics and artificial photosynthesis, electric mobility, and electricity storage.
WE could fill the desert with beautiful, artfully done arrays of solar towers, indistinguishable from pure art. Artists and arthitects could take the lead in designing, literally, beautiful, eye pleasing light gathering structures.
There will be a revolution in energy production, of which solar is but one component. Within decades the human race will look back in amazement that there was ever any sort of crisis associated with the availability of safe, clean energy.
People like T. Boone Pickens will be regarded as heros and pioneers in this, deservedly so. A bright new day will dawn, and we will rejoice beneath a clear, bright sun, as we were perhaps intended to do.
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