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STORY OF
SOLAR ENERGY
Arvind Gupta
Illustrator: Reshma BarveSTORY OF
SOLAR ENERGY
Arvind Gupta
Illustrator: Reshma BarvePublisher:
STORY OF
SOLAR ENERGY
Author: Arvind Gupta
Illustrator: Reshma Barve
Price:
Printer:New Clear Energy
The sun is everywhere. In India we have too much of it. Instead of sweating in it, we can try and
make the sun do some useful work like cooking food and lighting homes. On a sunny day, the
sun's energy falling on a 150-cm x 150-cm area exceeds the energy delivered by the kitchen gas
stove at full throttle! If we just collect that energy and concentrate it at one spot we'll be able to
cook without any fuel!
We are blessed with abundant sunshine, a good enough reason to seriously engage with this
perpetual, non-polluting energy source. The best minds in our country should be researching on
solar energy. They should be designing the cheapest solar cells and making the most efficient
solar cookers. 400-million Indians live without electricity. Solar energy holds the potential for
electrifying the remotest Indian hut. This will be true devolution of power and real empowerment
of our people. Gandhi's dream of “power to the people” will come true!
India has made a good beginning with wind energy. One single private company - Suzlon, alone
has installed over 6,000-Megawatts of non-polluting wind power. This happened because the
Indian government enunciated the right policies, gave the right tax breaks and provided a
conducive environment to develop wind energy. This story needs to be repeated with solar
energy.
Several sterling individuals helped me with this book. Dr. Anirban Hazra and Anish Mokashi sent
me many real and virtual books from abroad for research. Priya Kamath's initial drawings paved
the way for the book. Whenever the “sun” book came under a “cloud” my colleague Dr. Vidula
Mhaiskar found unexpected shafts of “sunshine” to brighten it.
Thanks to journalist friend Neela Sharma for discovering the young illustrator and designer -
Reshma Barve. Her deep sensitivity has imbued this book with life. I hope children enjoy this
comic book and it brings a little sunshine in their lives.
I would specially like to thank Dr. Arnab Bhattacharya, Dr. T. Sampath Kumar, Alabhya Singh,
Joyce, Nyla Coelho, Pavan Iyengar, Rajkishore and many other dear friends for critically
reviewing the manuscript and suggesting changes.
Finally, I would like to thank IUCAA - the institute which nurtured this project and the Navajibai
Ratan Tata Trust for providing the financial support for preparing this manuscript.
Arvind Gupta
02 October 2011
arvindtoys@gmail.comIt all started with the
BIG BANG.
The first fuel was wood.
Our earth is When the forests
4.6-billion years old. disappeared people
burnt coal.
Soon the coal on
the surface got over.
So miners dug deep. Deep
mines got water logged.
Samuel Newcombe James
invented a steam engine Watt designed
to pump out water from the first practical
deep mines. steam engine in 1769.
1
Watt’s
that ?Cheap coal and the steam engine powered the economy
and ushered in the Industrial Revolution.
Rails made it easier to haul
coal on the ground.
C
o
a Michael
l Nicola Tesla
Faraday
invented
invented them Alternating
first Electrici Current
n Motor. (A. C.)e
r
s
h
a
v
e
t Coal is burnt too
generate steam. Steam turns
electric turbines.d
i
g
d
e
e
p
e Edwin Drake builds
r the first rock oil well
in Pennsylvania.a
n
d
d
Karl Daimlere The Wright
builds the firste Brothers start
automobile to runp fuel aviation.
on petrol.e
r
.
12Coal tar and oil are used to
make industrial chemicals.
Modern medicines
cure diseases
and prolong life.
Fritz Haber and Karl
Bosch make fertilizers
from fossil fuels
like coal and
oil.
Fertilizers and tractorsWorld War I is the first fossil
fuel conflict. All wars are for increase food production and this
helps feed a growing population.control of vital resources.
World War II
gave us guided
missiles and
atom bombs.
World War II was followed
by a baby boom. The mood
was optimistic. Large
manufacturing capacities
were set up.
3Assembly lines make goods faster than people need them.
Advertisers use TV to hook new consumers.
Demand for energy soars.
The energy
crisis gives birth to the
environmental movement.
Soon there is an Rachel Carson's classic book
energy crisis. SILENT SPRING
Oil prices shows how
pesticides poisonZOOM!
the earth...
In the 1970's the
Arab countries
nationalize ...But soon oil prices fall and everyone
their oil industry. forgets about the energy shortage.
People are
shocked to see their
dependency on oil.
There is a showdown between
market and planned economy. Markets win all
the way. The Soviet Union collapses in 1991.
Personal
computers
become
common.
Suddenly
everyone
has a cell
Globalization arrives. phone!
Cheap labor
in China produces
stuff for the world.
4World oil production dips! China now burns half the world's coal to make exports possible.
But where will it get more coal and oil to fuel more growth?
Environmental problems are everywhere.
Rising CO2 levels lead to record heat waves.
There are massive floods
and droughts.
Top soil erodes.
Ancient
forests disappear. Fresh water is polluted
Species go extinct by industrial wastes.Ice caps melt because of global warming.
at more than a 1000
times their normal
rates.
Oil companies drill miles
deep in the high sea
because the easy way is gone.
But in the Gulf of
Mexico an oil platform
EXPLODES in 2010..... ... and fouls up the sea.
5
Mount
EverestCan we
keep increasing our
population exponentially?
Can we keep ravaging
the earth?
The West reinvents itself as a.
KNOWLEDGE economy.
Dirty manufacturing, e-waste, call centers
get pushed to poor countries.
Manufacturing declines;
the finance sector
becomes 40% of the economy.
In 2007, the biggest The USA becomes a Casino.
slump since the 1930s Wall Street is over leveraged.
broke out. Four years
later we’re still in it.
Unemployment soared.
Credit evaporated.
The economy was on
the verge of a collapse.
It's amazing how far we have come since
the beginning of industrialization
200 years ago. But this reckless pace
of growth and consumerist lifestyle
cannot be sustained for long.
Can we
keep dumping
Can we
more carbon
continue
into the
poisoning
atmosphere?
the earth with
more chemicals
and pesticides?
6
Where are
we headed?
What does the future
hold for us?

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