Theoretical Framework 3. Solar Energy Technoecosystems 4. Solar Energy Technoecosystems in Deserts 5. Solar energy technoecosystems and sun-powered bioecosystems have many parallels at organismic and ecosystem levels. Evolution, succession, symbiosis, niches, competition, optical concentration, and other phenomena occur in both industrial and biological worlds.
Solar collectors are analogous to plants in design, organization, and arid adaptations.
Large solar technoecosystems could counteract desertification and atmospheric CO 2 increase. Impending self-accelerating solar cell cost plummet, already begun, may drive complete global succession from fossil fuel to solar energy niche in the next few decades. Sudden arrival of technoecosystem strategies and effects at global scale signals the start of a new geological age, the Technozoic. Its continuation may depend on switch to solar energy. A wave of rapid evolution of solar energy technologies is happening.