Chapter SevenHow will we power our buildings?
131. The energy received from the sun every year represents approximately 10,000 times as much as our total annual energy use
Humans tend to tackle problems head-on whereas living organisms, through the process of evolution, have tended to change a problem before resolving it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the realm of energy. We have generally tried to meet our perceived needs by just creating more and more energy rather than thinking about how we could develop solutions that, just as in nature, need far less energy in the first place.
Energy is one of our greatest challenges, partly due ...
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