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Solar Energy in America's future, a preliminary assessment
Solar Energy in America's future a preliminary assessment Author:Stanford Research Institute This report documents a Stanford Research Institute study of the potential roles that solar energy technologies could have for meeting U.S. energy needs over the next 45 years. Computer simulations of different energy supply projections were developed by varying the input parameters of energy demand and energy costs. Three of these projections... more » were chosen to be developed into broader scenarios-that is, richer scripts of the future. First, the implementation measures required to realize these scenarios were delineated. Then, the economic, socioeconomic, sociopolitical and environmental issues associated with different energy futures were identified, and these issues were compared among the three scenarios. Finally six major societal issues were synthesized from an analysis of the scenarios. These issues and the three scenarios were evaluated from the perspectives of individuals in different perceptual frames-of-reference.« less