Sun-Powered Bribery: A Global Tour of Solar Incentives, or How Governments Pay Us Not to Cook the Planet By the time you finish reading this sentence, Germany will have wired another household €6,000 for daring to bolt panels onto its roof. Somewhere in Rajasthan, a farmer is checking his phone to see if New Delhi’s…
Sun Kings 2.0: How Solar Companies Became the New Petro-Sheikhs—Only Politer and With Better Slides By our correspondent, still wearing SPF-50 in December BARCELONA—Walk along the marina at sunrise and you’ll spot the tell-tale shimmer: entire super-yachts wrapped in photovoltaic panels, their owners sipping cold-brew espresso brewed from the same rays that keep the champagne…
Global Dispatch: The Sun — Still There, Still Underappreciated By Santiago “Sunny” Valdez, Senior Irradiated Correspondent Dateline: Somewhere on the daylight side of Earth, where 7.9 billion of us are simultaneously squinting at our phones to complain that it’s “too bright.” The sun—that 4.6-billion-year-old ball of nuclear gossip in the sky—has once again risen without…
Dream vs Sun: The Global Cage Match Nobody Signed Up For by Marcello V. DeSilva, International Correspondent, Somewhere Between Jet-Lag and Existential Dread The opening bell rang in Riyadh at 3 a.m. local, but the fight was already on every screen from Lagos laundromats to Tokyo taxis: the Dream—slick, filtered, eternally 23—versus the Sun—unlicensed, unfiltered,…
