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Time is running out for the solar revolution

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our

By Fred Pearce

20 February 2013

Project Sunshine by Steve McKevitt and Tony Ryan shows the great promise of solar power, but time is running out for its advocates to make it shine

WE ARE stardust. And ultimately the energy that powers our world comes from sunlight. For two centuries, we have been tapping into “fossilised sunlight”, burning solar energy trapped over millions of years in coal, oil and natural gas. Now we have to get back to catching real-time sunbeams.

That is the key premise of this book about a multimillion pound (largely public cash) scheme known as Project Sunshine which is based at the…

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