SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Solar sells, but need it cost the earth?
It’s sunny times for the solar industry which is expected to continue to grow rapidly — but there are still major environmental issues with how solar cells are made, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
HOW GREEN IS GREEN? Recycling solar cells safely is a major challenge for the growing industry
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
SOLAR CELLS became a serious industry around 2000, when an exponential expansion in their installation began. Since then, they have gone on to make up a whopping — or rather, minuscule — 2 per cent of the global energy market.
They are, however, scheduled for continued extreme growth over the coming years, with the most dramatic predictions forecasting that their share of the energy market could increase to 50 per cent by 2050.
If it were possible to satisfy the entire world’s energy needs with solar power, (this is thought impossible because of the ways some energy must be used and stored) an area approximately the size of Spain would need to be totally covered in solar panels.
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