Subject(s): Renewable energy sources. -- Sustainable development. -- Fossil fuels to solar power: transforming the global economy -- Pyromaniacs fossil resource dependency, Global competition in place of global environmental policy, origins of the fossil-fuel economy, Nature and society, Solar resources, Political to the economic solar manifesto -- Captivity of liberation : fossil fuel and solar supply chains compared -- Fossil supply chains, long supply chains due to limited resources, Globalization, Globalisation, Fossil resource supply chains and industrial concentration- market destruction through market mechanisms, Big energy and big mining , Networking supercartels and the disempowerment of democratic institutions -- Exploiting solar resources: new political and economic freedom -- Economic logic of the solar energy supply chain -- pathological politics of fossil resources -- 21st century writing on the wall: political cost of fuels and resource conflict -- limited reserve, resource conflict, Resource reserve, gunboat diplomacy and the moral bankruptcy of society -- Distorting effects of fossil supply chains : Fossil resource trap close on the developing world -- Mythology of fossil energy : Inadequacy of conventional energy statistics, Inadequacy of energy forecasts, Subsidies for conventional energy systems , Feigned productivity of nuclear and fossil energy -- Throwing off the fossil supply chains -- Wireless power- potential of solar stand alone and stand by technologies, Potential for natural and technological solar energy storage, Synergistic applications, cross-substitution,and all-load micro power plants, solar technology revolution and the solar information society -- Untapped wealth of solar resources : Higher productivity of biological materials, Replacing fossil with solar resources, Solar materials -from agricultural monoculture to polycultures , Biotechnology -- Profitability of renewable energy and resources : Solar and fossil resources and their economic efficiency, Economic applications of solar resources in a nutshell -- Solar economy -- Exploiting solar energy : capital allowances, Tax exempt status for solar resources, Environmental taxation, Possibility and problem in the market for green electricity, Green suppliers and municipal self- sufficiency, Creative destruction in the energy industry and the transformation of the resource industry, Soft resources -- Regionalization of the global economy : Sustinable economy, energy industry -- Primary economy work and the solar economy