From MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science:
"Solar photovoltaic power generators, also known as solar cells, convert sunlight directly into electricity. The installation of solar cells is growing rapidly (30% per year) and solar cells are projected to become an increasingly significant source of energy for our society. Because of the vast quantity of energy available from the sun, solar energy has the potential to scale to meet our entire energy demands." Solar photovoltaics
The graph above enlarged here charts:
-- Installed Solar
-- World Electricity Capacity
-- Primary Energy Consumption
The above link found while Googling "microenergy" - 22,700,000 results - haven't navigated all those links o.c. - wondering if this level of Google results might be any cause for optimism on the energy front.
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