[ 고1 ]_9월 (2020)__[ 35번 ]

 

 

 

❶  In a single week, the sun delivers more energy to our planet than humanity has used through the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas through all of human history.

❷  And the sun will keep shining on our planet for billions of years.   

❸  Our challenge isn’t that we’re running out of energy.   

❹  It’s that we have been focused on the wrong source―the small, finite one that we’re using up.  

❺  Indeed, all the coal, natural gas, and oil we use today is just solar energy from millions of years ago, a very tiny part of which was preserved deep underground.   

❻  Our challenge, and our opportunity, is to learn to efficiently and cheaply use the much more abundant source that is the new energy striking our planet each day from the sun. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

❶  단 한 주만에, 태양은 ‘모든 인간의 역사’에 걸쳐 인간이 석탄, 석유, 그리고 천연 가스의 연소를 통해 사용해 온 것보다 더 많은 에너지를 지구에 전달한다. 
❷  그리고 태양은 수십억 년 동안, 계속하여 지구를 비출 것이다. 
❸  우리의 당면 과제는 우리의 에너지가 고갈되고 있다는 것이 아니다. 
❹  그것은 우리가 잘못된 원천 ― 우리가 고갈시키고 있는 (양이) 적고 한정적인 것―에 집중하고 있다는 것이다. 
❺  사실, 우리가 오늘날 사용하고 있는 모든 석탄, 천연가스, 그리고 석유는 수백 만년 전에 온 태양 에너지일뿐이며, 그것의 극히 일부분만이 지하 깊은 곳에 보존되어 있었다.
❻  우리의 기회이자 당면 과제는 태양으로부터 매일 지구에 도달하는 새로운 에너지인 ‘훨씬 더 풍부한’ 원천을 효율적으로 그리고 저비용으로 사용하는 것을 배우는 것이다.