Great motivational and inspiring documentary about solar and green energy. The documentary was informative and entertaining at the same time. I would recommend others to watch it to be inspired to work toward a greener future.
Catching the Sun
2015
Action / Documentary / Drama / History / News
Catching the Sun
2015
Action / Documentary / Drama / History / News
Plot summary
An unemployed American worker, a Tea Party activist, and a Chinese solar entrepreneur. But who wins and who loses the battle for power in the 21st century? Through interwoven character dramas spanning the U.S. and China, Catching the Sun explores the global economic race to lead the clean energy future.
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January 27, 2018 at 06:12 PM
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Inspiring and Informative
Impactful and made you think
Very well written and made you think of ways we all can make changes to our energy consumption habits to be more sustainable. Certainly interesting to see how others around the globe are looking at clean energy and adopting the technology.
A good look into the solar energy industry
This movie covers the solar energy industry, with perspectives from activists, front line workers, and political figures, in the US and internationally. It does it's best to be bipartisan, but the problem here is how partisan the pushback is that the industry faces - notably from neoconservatives fueled by, unsurprisingly, the oil industry.
Filmed in 2016, it is a little depressing to see how little we have advanced as a country, but the driving forces behind the need for solar are as pressing as ever: the high cost of gas from the Ukraine/Russia war, the Texas power grid failures, the fires in California, and so on.
The film was very cognizant of the failures of the American government to implement the programs necessary to TRULY get energy independence moving.