Solar Energy
Every hour the Earth receives an immense flow of energy from the Sun. The accelerating development of photovoltaic technology has made it increasingly possible to capture a small part of that flow directly and convert it into electricity at scales ranging from individual homes to vast energy systems.
Seeing the larger connections
Whole Life Times has already explored the remarkable history and future of solar photovoltaics, including the work of pioneering researchers such as Professor Martin Green. This page will become the continuing home for WLT material on solar science, applications, affordability, integration with storage and the wider role of solar power in the energy transition.
As this part of the Whole Life Times website develops, the page will connect relevant magazine articles, historical archive material, WLT Dialogues, books, research and related subjects. In that way it can grow from an introductory pathway into a richer and increasingly interconnected field of knowledge.
What will gather here
WLT Articles
Current and recent Whole Life Times articles directly concerned with solar energy and its wider connections.
From the Archive
Earlier WLT articles will be added as the historical print collection is scanned, recovered and classified.
WLT Dialogues
Relevant conversations with researchers, practitioners, thinkers and change-makers will progressively be connected here.
A subject page designed to grow
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Climate belongs to a larger living system
Continue into the broader Climate & Energy gateway, explore related environmental and sustainable-living material, or browse the growing Whole Life Times archive.
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