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An Optimistic Solar View
Posted By: Amanda Gillen
Date: February 22nd, 2011
Category: Climate Change, General Interest, Social Responsibility
I’m posting a link to an interview that Grist did with Ray Kurzweil purely because it is so optimistic about the growth of solar energy.
Kurzweil, is considered a “futurist” – someone who tries to predict the future of human society or life on earth using systems thinking. He accurately predicted the growth and use of personal computers based on his law of accelerating returns. Now he is predicting that we can meet all of our energy needs from solar in 20 years.
Read more: “Futurist Ray Kurzweil isn’t worried about climate change,” by Lauren Feeney