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The overestimated potential of solar energy to mitigate climate change

Physics and Society 2017-10-18 v1 Physics Education Popular Physics

Abstract

Many aspects of solar energy and policies to tackle the energy transition have been neglected. Even though the earth is plenty of sun energy, our planet is not plenty of resources to transform that energy into electricity. This is a case between many others where an strongly optimistic bias is shadowing the white elephant in the room.

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@article{arxiv.1710.05957,
  title  = {The overestimated potential of solar energy to mitigate climate change},
  author = {Marcos Paulo Belançon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05957},
  year   = {2017}
}