This essential provides an overview of the changes in our climate, their
causes and their consequences. Today, humanity's energy needs are
largely met in ways that are harmful to the climate. The alternative to
this, solar energy, would satisfy our needs thousands of times over. But
this option is far too little used for mainly economic reasons. This
essential then discusses the energy converters that can be used to make
solar energy available. Some other modern energy sources, such as
nuclear power, are either inadequate, still utopian, or otherwise
environmentally harmful. An outlook shows that our energy problem could
easily be solved with economic reason by global use of solar energy. The
climate could thus still be stabilized in time.
This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition
Unser Klima und das Energieproblem by Klaus Stierstadt, published by
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The
translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine
translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was
done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read
stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer
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