As you read this, millions of people worldwide are in desperate
need of a source of fuel for cooking their food. Millions of
people live in homes that do not have electric lights, much less
appliances that improve the quality of life in all those
countless ways that we, in developed countries, take for
granted. There are health clinics in tropical countries around
the world that are at risk of ruining badly needed medicines
because they cannot keep them adequately refrigerated. Surfing
closer to home, if you are reading this in California, your
computer may flick off without warning as rolling blackouts
deprive portions of the state of power, seemingly at random.
|For more information about NASA's Surface Meteorology and Solar
Energy Project, visit the home page (a new browser window will
open).| The issue in most of these cases is not too little
power. Rather, the issue is we humans dont effectively and
efficiently make use of the power resourcesall of the
resourcesavailable to us. We in the western world ar