July 1, 2026

Stand on a rooftop on a bright afternoon and you’ll feel the sun doing something obvious — warming your skin, making you squint. What you won’t feel is the much stranger thing happening a few feet away, inside a solar panel: sunlight quietly getting converted into electricity, one photon at a time. That conversion has […]

Here’s something that sounds made up but isn’t: the sunlight hitting Earth in about ninety minutes carries enough energy to power the entire planet for a full year. Not a city. Not a country. The whole planet. That number stuck with me the first time I read it, because it reframes the whole conversation. We’re