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Solar Power for the World
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Solar Power for the World

by Wolfgang Palz
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
800 pages
22h 43m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 12
My Solar Age Started with Tchernobyl
Franz Alt
TV Journalist and Publisher, Baden-Baden, Germany
Until the great accident of Tchernobyl, I was a supporter of the
atomic energy. I trusted those experts that had told us their ideology
of a “safe nuclear energy”. As a TV journalist and member of a
conservative Party, the CDU in Germany, I was blindly believing the
energy experts. But the disaster of Tchernobyl was a wake up call
and eventually I started to make up my mind seriously. Tchernobyl
was my “Damascus event”.
In the meantime I did learn a few things:
The Sun sends us, every second, 10,000 to 15,000 more
energy than man on Earth is currentl ...
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ISBN: 9789814411875