Energy: The Solar Prospect
Paper
By: Denis Hayes
Date: March 1977
Source: Hayes, Denis. Energy: The Solar Prospect. Worldwatch Paper 11. [Washington]: Worldwatch Institute, 1977, 21–23.
About the Author: Denis Allen Hayes (1944–) was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, and graduated from Stanford University Law School in 1985. In 1969, he founded Environmental Action Inc. in Washington, D.C. He was a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in 1971 and 1972. In 1974 and 1975, he was director of the Illinois State Energy Office in Springfield. He was a senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., from 1975 to 1979.
Introduction
Since the nineteenth century, Americans have depended on fossil fuels for energy. Petroleum refined into gasoline made possible the widespread use of the automobile in the early twentieth century, and the...
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