Great to hear someone talking about the sun with such enthusiasm, makes a refreshing change from it being generally undervalued, or even talked about as if it's something harmful (Which has to be the biggest insult to it!).
In my own work studying what I've seen is a global energy problem now for the past seven years since coming across it during PhD candidate work, after already a lengthy career in STEM (Systems Engineer), I've come to accepting there is a very simple rule in nature about energy;
"Energy is the currency of all nature, it has a single issuer and enforcer, the sun. We either use it or burn."
Currently we are not using it, because we are not monetising it. We only monetise energy extracted from the planet, and as long as we do this, we have to keep cranking up the planetary temperature.
It's interesting this all fits together perfectly in an overall energy systemic view, even numerically, and yet mainstream science / STEM continues to give it zero time.
I think the reason is that science, in general is now almost completely dependent on profit for its own existence.
It's a truly massive conflict of interest that has to keep getting worse, until we do what needs to be done - monetise the economic product created from solar, by issue of solar-indexed stimulus.
Because the energy use never stops, the stimulus should never stop.
Otherwise, as the energy we are transferring to by domestic and community solar continues to scale up, and the energy extracted from the planet continues to scale down, money is losing value, because in the end, money is just abstracted energy, energy quantifies what we can do with money, and more energy travels by money than by any other means.
When the energy value in it disappears, that is the end of the usefulness of money.
Anyhow, its the only way to transmit the energy coming in from the sun to all people, now we are finding it increasingly difficult to keep taking energy from the planet.
Thanks for a great pro-sun story, I hope you do much more.
Here is one of mine from a while ago that puts some numbers on the solar indexed stimulus, note this is now heavily out of date, the amounts at stake will be much bigger now:
