Everything solar is about much more than just using solar energy to power technical equipment. It's about energy flows in processes from the start to the end. Many processes once were fully based on solar energy and today are based on fossil fuels. A house built with wood uses mainly materials created with solar energy (photosynthese), while a house built with concrete use materials made available with heavy machinery fueled with fossil fuels. This VCC takes a holistic view on the flows of energy through all processes in our society from start to end and assesses where more instantaneous solar energy can be used. We review all structures, processes, and feedback loops in our society with respect to the energy needed and the source of energy with the goal to develop novel concepts and approaches that are low-energy and based on the use of instantaneous solar energy.
[Jun 04, 2026] ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: This is what the Global Justice Report published today makes very clear. Read the article by Jonathan Watts in the Guardian as an introduction. While this equal and habitable world is still possible, it is very unlikely that we will transition to this world as long as greedy and unethical billionaires supported by governments they own compete to be the first trillionaire. The report underlines that the fight for an equal and habitable world has to be a fight against a system that rewards extraction and depletion of all resources and requires infinitely growing consumption devouring the Earth's life-support system; a system designed to increase inequality and sustain the exploitation of almost all to serve the greed of a few!
