OK, it hasn’t taken over the world yet, but the arc is now pretty clear.
I can’t recommend this 9 minute report from Australian Broadcasting highly enough.
It’s a thumbnail history of the solar revolution, and no surprise, highlights Australian researcher’s considerable contributions – but there’s some really great archival footage of solar satellites, and how the US space program kept the technology percolating thru the oil soaked 60s.
Another reminder of just how far we’ve come, and how divorced from reality today’s fossil bound leadership in Washington really is.
A few additional illustrative graphs here:
