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       History of Renewable Energy THE FOSSIL FUELERS DON'T WANT YOU TO
       KNOW
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: May 14, 2014, 2:46 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       >
       > Many believe that solar energy is a late twentieth-century
       phenomenon.  Let It Shine: The 6000 Year-Story of Solar Energy
       will change this misconception. Let It Shine shows, for example,
       that six thousand years ago the stone-age Chinese built their
       homes so every one of them made maximum use of the sun’s energy
       in winter.
       >
       > So begins the story of the genesis of solar energy told in Let
       it Shine, the world’s first and only comprehensive history of
       humanity’s use of the sun.
  HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-141113185701.png<br
       /> Page after page the story brings to light information never
       before unearthed.
       >
       > Three thousand years ago the Chinese developed bronze concave
       mirrors to focus sunlight onto combustibles to start their
       cooking fire. Just recently dozens of these solar igniters –
       called yang-suis have been unearthed by archaeologists, making
       them the oldest extant solar device.
       >
       > 2500 years ago, for example, the sun heated every house in
       most Greek cities.
  HTML http://www.coh2.org/images/Smileys/huhsign.gif
       Years later
       ancient Roman architects published solar self-help books to show
       people how to save on fuel  ;D  as firewood became scarce,  and
       fleets scoured the known world for much needed supplies.
       >
       > During the renaissance Galileo and his contemporaries planned
       the construction of sun-focusing mirrors to serve as the West’s
       ultimate weapon against its Islamic enemies. Leonardo da Vinci
       entertained more peaceful applications. He aimed at making his
       fortune by building mirrors a mile in diameter to heat water for
       the Florentine woolen industry.
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       >
       > Much later, during the industrial revolution, engineers
       devised solar-run steam engines to save Europe from paralysis
       should it run out of fossil fuels.
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       >
       > As electricity began to power cities, the first photovoltaic
       modules joined the grid on a New York City rooftop in 1884. :o
       >
       > More than one hundred years earlier a Swiss polymath modeled
       global warming by trapping solar heat in a glass-covered box
       just as carbon dioxide holds in solar heat above the earth.
       Using the same type of glass-covered box to harvest solar
       energy, enterprising businessmen established a thriving solar
       water industry in California at the beginning of the
       1880s![img]
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       >
       > Let it Shine [/COLOR][color=red]brings to light newly
       discovered documents suppressed by the Nixon, Carter and Reagan
       Administrations, that if known at the time by the public and the
       Congress, solar energy would have definitely played a larger
       role in the American energy scene during the last forty
       years.
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       >
       > Let it Shine presents the step-by-step development of solar
       architecture and technology and pertinent energy policies. By
       providing the background for today’s vibrant solar
       industry,
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       />a deeper understanding emerges of how solar energy
       applications
       have evolved and performed and their promise for today’s world.
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       />The book is not merely a technological treatise though. It
       highlights the context in which these developments have occurred
       
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       > and the people who have made the solar revolution possible,
       revealing a whole new group of unknown technological pioneers,
       as well as people famous for other accomplishments never before
       known for their work as the solar advocates and technologists
       they were.
       >
       > Who would think Socrates as a solar promoter?
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       Yet in a work by
       his admirer Xenophon, Socrates presents the basic plans for
       designing a solar
       house.
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       >
       > Vitruvius, a Roman famous to this day as the architect of
       architects, transmitted the wisdom of the Greeks on building
       with the sun. Did you know that the first aspiring solar
       entrepreneur was Leonardo da Vinci? Einstein’s famous treatise
       on Light Quanta, which won him the Nobel Prize, definitely
       qualifies the great scientist to be regarded as the father of
       modern photovoltaics. Then there are the forgotten ones like
       Gustav Vorherr, who opened up the first school of solar
       architecture during the 1820s in Munich and his mentor, Dr.
       Bernhard Christoph Faust, the first person to write a complete
       book on a solar topic. Thousands of newly trained solar
       architects trained in the work of Faust fanned out to build
       solar homes throughout Europe. Sympathetic despots of Bavaria
       and Prussia required their subjects
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       />
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       to build
       following the teachings of these men,
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       />resulting in many solar structures going up in Europe during
       the
       first half of the nineteenth century. The climax of their work
       was the transformation of an urban area in Switzerland becoming
       the first modern Sun City.
       >
       > And who has heard of Williams Grylls Adams and Richard Evans
       Day, discoverers in 1876 of photovoltaics,
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       or Charles Fritts,
       who put up the first roof-top solar array on a New York building
       in the 1880s?
       >
       > These are but a sampling of what’s to be found in the blogs
       based upon Let it Shine.  ;D
       >
       > Table of Contents
       >
       > I Early Use of the Sun
       >
       > Chp 1    Solar Architecture in Ancient China [6000 BCE –]
       >
       > Chp 2    Solar Architecture in Ancient Greece [500 BCE. – 300
       BCE]
       >
       > Chp 3    Roman Solar Architecture [100 BCE – 500 ACE]
       >
       > Chp 4    Burning Mirrors [900BCE– 1700s]
       >
       > Chp 5    Heat for Horticulture [1500s – 1800s]
       >
       > Chp 6    Solar Hot Boxes [1767 – 1800s]
       >
       > II Power from the Sun
       >
       > Chp 7    The First Solar Motors [1860 – 1880]
       >
       > Chp 8    Two American Pioneers [1872 – 1904]
       >
       > Chp 9    Low Temperature Solar Motors [1885 – 1915]
       >
       > Chp 10  The First Practical Solar Engine [1906 – 1914]
       >
       > III Solar Water Heating
       >
       > Chp 11   Early Solar Water Heaters [1891 – 1911]
       >
       > Chp 12   Hot Water – Day and Night [1909 – 1941]
       >
       > Chp 13   A Flourishing Solar Industry [1923 – 1950]
       >
       > Chp 14   Solar Water Heating Worldwide Part I [1930s – 1960s]
       >
       > Chp 15   Solar Desalination [1943-]
       >
       > IV Solar House Heating
       >
       > Chp 16   Solar Building during the Enlightenment [1807 – 1850]
       >
       > Chp 17   Solar Architecture in Europe after Faust and Vorherr
       [1850 – 1939])
       >
       > Chp 18   Solar Heating in Early America [1200– 1912]
       >
       > Chp 19  An American Revival [1931 – 1950s]
       >
       > Chp 20   Solar Collectors for House Heating [1882 – 1962]
       >
       > V Photovoltaics
       >
       > Chp 21   From Selenium to Silicon [1876 –]
       >
       > Chp 22   Saved by the Space Race[1958-]
       >
       > Chp 23   From Space to Earth [1968-]
       >
       > VI The modern Era
       >
       > Chp 24   Prelude to the Embargo [1945 -1973]
       >
       > Chp 25   Solar Successes in the 1970s and 1980s
       >
       > Chp 26   America’s First Solar City [1920s -]
       >
       > Chp 27   Solar Water Heating Worldwide, Part 2 [1973-]
       >
       > Chp 28   Photovoltaics for Every Rooftop [1978 -]
       >
       > Chp 29   Better Cells, Cheaper Cells [1956 -]
       >
       > Epilogue – Epilogue
       >
       > Author: John Perlin
       >
       >
       --- End Quote ---
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       Agelbert NOTE: Are all the above Cornucopian dreamers?
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       />OR, ARE THEY PRACTICAL, INTELLIGENT, DECENT, HONEST PEOPLE WHO
       KNEW (as the ones alive KNOW) THAT WE LIVE IN A PLANET WITH
       FINITE RESOURCES AND MUST USE THE ENERGY WE REQUIRE RENEWABLY OR
       NOT AT ALL ?
       [IMG]
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       There is no such thing as CHEAP fossil fuels but there IS, AND
       CONTINUES TO BE, such a thing as greedballs who want keep energy
       SCARCE in order to cash in on it with total disregard for the
       biosphere. THAT is what fossil fuelers are all about, NOT about
       providing cheap energy for civilization as they mendaciously
       claim.
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       />Kill the STUPID, LYING, PREDATORY CAPITALIST  "fossil fuels
       are
       cheap" mantra or let THE STUPID, WAR LOVING, PROFIT WORSHIPPING
       ARSE HOLES WHO PUSH IT KILL THE BIOSPHERE!
       CHOOSE OUR FUTURE:
       THIS --->
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       [center]
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       OR THIS:
       [center][img width=200]
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       /> Have a nice day [i]ignoring the truth or help stop the fossil
       fuel crazies and PASS THIS ON with or without attribution. It's
       time we called these ignorant forks on the last century of BS
       PRO-Fossil Fuel propaganda, lies and distortions about the
       history of human energy use in general and renewable energy use
       in particular, the laws of thermodynamics and common sense. The
       conscience free, evil, greedball STUPIDITY called "Game" theory
       is behind the fossil fueler twisted Predatory Capitalist
       "caloric intake is IT" mindset. Reject it and adopt respect for
       all life as you respect yourself or die stupid.
       [/I]
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       #Post#: 1169--------------------------------------------------
       Re: History of Renewable Energy THE FOSSIL FUELERS DON'T WANT
       YOU TO KNOW
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: May 20, 2014, 5:34 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       [center]Planting the “SEEDS” of Solar Technology in the Home
       [/center]
       Data-rich predictive models help determine which consumers buy
       solar equipment and why.
       Mike Janes, Sandia National Laboratories
       May 20, 2014  |  1 Comment
       In an effort to better understand what persuades people to buy
       photovoltaic (PV) systems for their homes, researchers at Sandia
       National Laboratories are gathering data on consumer motivations
       that can feed sophisticated computer models and thus lead to
       greater use of solar energy.
       A primary goal of the project is to help increase the nation’s
       share of solar energy in the electricity market from its current
       share of less than .05 percent to at least 14 percent by 2030.
       This is the second year of a three-year effort.
       “If we can develop effective and accurate predictive models, we
       can help identify policy variables that could increase purchases
       of residential PV systems and ultimately help advance the
       mission of the SunShot Initiative,” said Kiran Lakkaraju,
       Sandia’s project lead. Specifically, he said, an effective model
       of solar purchase dynamics can be used to predict and even
       influence consumer purchasing decisions.
       Sandia National Laboratories researcher Kiran Lakkaraju leads a
       modeling project that supports the goals of the Department of
       Energy’s SunShot Initiative. The work aims to create a model
       that predicts household solar energy system purchases based on
       such variables as price, energy savings, environmental concerns
       and other factors. Photo by Randy Montoya.
       The modeling project, part of the Solar Energy Evolution and
       Diffusion Studies(SEEDS) program, is one of many activities in
       the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which seeks to make
       solar energy cost-competitive with other forms of electricity.
       SEEDS projects are designed to investigate methods for
       transforming the operations of solar researchers, manufacturers,
       developers, installers and policymakers.
       The projects will be discussed at a May 22 workshop at the
       Department of Energy’s SunShot Grand Challenge Summit. The event
       takes place May 19-22 in Anaheim, Calif.
       Sandia’s solar energy program includes deep research and
       development in areas such as PV systems, concentrating solar
       power, grid integration and solar codes and standards.
       Computer Models Predict Homeowners’ Likelihood to Buy, Invest in
       PV Systems  ::)
       Sandia’s approach is to collect and analyze large amounts of
       data, said Jerry McNeish, manager of the labs’ quantitative
       modeling and analysis group. The information has led to two
       different models, one that predicts how likely an individual is
       to buy a PV system and one that predicts how long that
       individual will take to make the investment.
       Working with project partners at the National Renewable Energy
       Laboratory (NREL) and the California Center for Sustainable
       Energy (CCSE), project researchers are conducting surveys of
       consumers in San Diego County, including 1,000 respondents who
       have bought PV systems and another 1,000 who have not. Data from
       the surveys will be studied by Sandia and Vanderbilt University
       quantitative modeling experts and fed into modeling tools.
       CCSE leads the market characterization of the San Diego regional
       solar market, including focus groups, pilot programs and field
       testing of messages.
       Experiments Analyze Effectiveness of Incentives, Framing of
       Messages  ::)
       Additional data is being collected for the Sandia project via a
       field experiment conducted by collaborator The Vote Solar
       Initiative, which will analyze how consumers respond to economic
       incentives, discounts and even peer effects when friends, family
       or co-workers purchase PV systems.
       Sandia National Laboratories researcher Joshua Letchford
       processes survey data gathered from a sampling of both San Diego
       photovoltaic adopters and those who have not yet adopted in that
       region. The questions on the surveys were influenced by the
       results from the initial predictive models and touch on issues
       such as environmental awareness, energy independence and
       information about life events. Photo by Randy Montoya.
       Another experiment, conducted online by The Wharton School at
       the University of Pennsylvania, is exploring how the framing of
       messages can influence whether consumers will invest the time to
       learn more about installing PV systems. Researchers will examine
       how different demographic segments are influenced by messages
       and will study the influence of such issues as environmental
       awareness, energy independence, information about life events
       and how messages are received.
       Other predictive variables, including the square footage of
       homes, the national unemployment rate and even seemingly
       inconsequential factors, such as whether consumers own a
       swimming pool, are also part of the models.
       Consumer Data Models Will Help Identify Likely Solar Buyers  ::)
       “We’re essentially creating a model that predicts household
       solar energy system purchases based on such variables as price,
       energy savings, environmental concerns and other factors,” said
       Lakkaraju. “But then we’re also running experiments that feed
       results back into the model. We have a cycle where we use the
       model to test and generate hypotheses about solar panel
       purchases, but then we test these hypotheses through experiments
       to improve the model.”
       The Sandia-developed models, Lakkaraju said, have already
       predicted purchasing behavior 200-500 percent better than
       current models.  ::)
       The team also is investigating novel financing structures that
       go beyond straightforward “purchases,” such as third-party
       ownership through leasing or power purchasing agreements. These
       aren’t strictly purchases yet are seen as key to the industry’s
       growth, Lakkaraju said.
       The research team will test their modeling tools,
       recommendations and draft guidance on using the models in
       additional field experiments.
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       “The significance of this work is that it will help identify
       those likely to purchase PV systems and help forecast future
       market trends,” said Lakkaraju. “Ultimately, it will help those
       in the solar industry to more effectively bring solar energy to
       consumers.”  ::)
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       1 Comment
       A. G. Gelbert
       May 20, 2014
       All well and good. But let us never forget that the Federal
       Reserve can facilitate the transition to solar energy simply by
       providing the same (or a percentage point lower as an incentive)
       financing capital for carbon neutral home refits and new homes
       with solar and other renewable energy technologies. This is a
       problem that CAN OBVIOUSLY and SUSTAINABLY be fixed by throwing
       money at it.
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       Of course, we know why the Federal Reserve will CONTINUE to
       throw money at the pernicious habits of Wall Street that are
       ruining our economy and defending the
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       />fossil fuel criminal syndicate both inside an outside of our
       government, don't we? It's what predatory, conscience free,
       pollute and don't give a hoot Capitalism is all about. >:(
       The newly released book, "Let it Shine", brings to light newly
       discovered documents suppressed by the Nixon, Carter and Reagan
       Administrations, that if known at the time by the public and the
       Congress, solar energy would have definitely played a larger
       role in the American energy scene during the last fifty years.
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       How the Promise of Chemurgy Was Dashed By Big Oil
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       #Post#: 16971--------------------------------------------------
       History of Renewable Energy the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Don't Want
       You to Know
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 11, 2021, 2:45 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       [center]History of Renewable Energy the &#129430; Hydrocarbon
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       />Hellspawn Don't Want You to Know[/center]
       --- Quote ---
       > Many believe that solar energy is a late twentieth-century
       phenomenon. [color=navy][size=14pt]Let It Shine: The 6000
       Year-Story of Solar Energy will change this misconception. Let
       It Shine shows, for example, that six thousand years ago the
       stone-age Chinese built their homes so every one of them made
       maximum use of the sun’s energy in winter.
       >
       >
       [center]
  HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-111021165219.png[/center]
       >
       > So begins the story of the genesis of solar energy told in Let
       it Shine, the world’s first and only comprehensive history of
       humanity’s use of the sun.
  HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-141113185701.png<br
       /> Page after page the story brings to light information never
       before unearthed.
       >
       > Three thousand years ago the Chinese developed bronze concave
       mirrors to focus sunlight onto combustibles to start their
       cooking fire. Just recently dozens of these solar igniters –
       called yang-suis have been unearthed by archaeologists, making
       them the oldest extant solar device.
       >
       > 2500 years ago, for example, the sun heated every house in
       most Greek cities.
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818180835-16181943.gif<br
       />Years later ancient Roman architects published solar self-help
       books to show people how to save on fuel ;D as firewood became
       scarce,  and fleets scoured the known world for much needed
       supplies.
       >
       > During the renaissance Galileo and his contemporaries planned
       the construction of sun-focusing mirrors to serve as the West’s
       ultimate weapon against its Islamic enemies. Leonardo da Vinci
       entertained more peaceful applications. He aimed at making his
       fortune by building mirrors a mile in diameter to heat water for
       the Florentine woolen industry. &#127774;
       >
       > Much later, during the industrial revolution, engineers
       devised solar-run steam engines to save Europe from paralysis
       should it run out of fossil fuels.
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-250718204746.gif
       >
       > As electricity began to power cities, the first photovoltaic
       modules joined the grid on a New York City rooftop in 1884. :o
       >
       > More than one hundred years earlier a Swiss polymath modeled
       global warming by trapping solar heat in a glass-covered box
       just as carbon dioxide holds in solar heat above the earth.
       Using the same type of glass-covered box to harvest solar
       energy, enterprising businessmen established a thriving solar
       water industry in California at the beginning of the 1880s!
       >
       > Let it Shine [/COLOR]brings to light newly discovered
       documents suppressed by the Nixon, Carter and Reagan
       Administrations, that if known at the time by the public and the
       Congress, solar energy would have definitely played a larger
       role in the American energy scene during the last fifty years.
  HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-221215212409.png<br
       />
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818180835-16271224.gif
       >
       > Let it Shine presents the step-by-step development of solar
       architecture and technology and pertinent energy policies. By
       providing the background for today’s
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-250718210628.gif<br
       />&#128176; [color=green]vibrant solar industry, a deeper
       understanding emerges of how solar energy applications have
       evolved and performed and their promise for today’s world.
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       />The book is not merely a technological treatise though. It
       highlights the context in which these developments have occurred
       and the people who have made the solar revolution possible,
       revealing a whole new group of unknown technological pioneers,
       as well as people famous for other accomplishments never before
       known for their work as the solar advocates and technologists
       they were.
       >
       > Who would think Socrates as a solar
       promoter?
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-210818163125-16722324.gif<br
       />Yet in a work by his admirer Xenophon, Socrates presents the
       basic plans for designing a solar
       house.
  HTML http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/465/465823jzy0y15obs.gif<br
       />
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818180835-1626482.gif
       >
       > Vitruvius, a Roman famous to this day as the architect of
       architects, transmitted the wisdom of the Greeks on building
       with the sun. Did you know that the first aspiring solar
       entrepreneur was Leonardo da Vinci? Einstein’s famous treatise
       on Light Quanta, which won him the Nobel Prize, definitely
       qualifies the great scientist to be regarded as the father of
       modern photovoltaics. Then there are the forgotten ones like
       Gustav Vorherr, who opened up the first school of solar
       architecture during the 1820s in Munich and his mentor, Dr.
       Bernhard Christoph Faust, the first person to write a complete
       book on a solar topic. Thousands of newly trained solar
       architects trained in the work of Faust fanned out to build
       solar homes throughout Europe. Sympathetic despots of Bavaria
       and Prussia required their subjects to build following the
       teachings of these men,
  HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-110821160125.pnghttp://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-141113185047.png<br
       />resulting in many solar structures going up in Europe during
       the
       first half of the nineteenth century. The climax of their work
       was the transformation of an urban area in Switzerland becoming
       the first modern Sun City.
       >
       > And who has heard of Williams Grylls Adams and Richard Evans
       Day, discoverers in 1876 of photovoltaics,
  HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/34y5mvr.gif
       or Charles Fritts,
       who put up the first roof-top solar array on a New York building
       in the 1880s?
       >
       > These are but a sampling of what’s to be found in the blogs
       based upon Let it Shine.
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-250718210628.gif<br
       />
       >
       > Table of Contents
       >
       > I Early Use of the Sun
       >
       > Chp 1    Solar Architecture in Ancient China [6000 BCE –]
       >
       > Chp 2    Solar Architecture in Ancient Greece [500 BCE. – 300
       BCE]
       >
       > Chp 3    Roman Solar Architecture [100 BCE – 500 ACE]
       >
       > Chp 4    Burning Mirrors [900BCE– 1700s]
       >
       > Chp 5    Heat for Horticulture [1500s – 1800s]
       >
       > Chp 6    Solar Hot Boxes [1767 – 1800s]
       >
       > II Power from the Sun
       >
       > Chp 7    The First Solar Motors [1860 – 1880]
       >
       > Chp 8    Two American Pioneers [1872 – 1904]
       >
       > Chp 9    Low Temperature Solar Motors [1885 – 1915]
       >
       > Chp 10  The First Practical Solar Engine [1906 – 1914]
       >
       > III Solar Water Heating
       >
       > Chp 11   Early Solar Water Heaters [1891 – 1911]
       >
       > Chp 12   Hot Water – Day and Night [1909 – 1941]
       >
       > Chp 13   A Flourishing Solar Industry [1923 – 1950]
       >
       > Chp 14   Solar Water Heating Worldwide Part I [1930s – 1960s]
       >
       > Chp 15   Solar Desalination [1943-]
       >
       > IV Solar House Heating
       >
       > Chp 16   Solar Building during the Enlightenment [1807 – 1850]
       >
       > Chp 17   Solar Architecture in Europe after Faust and Vorherr
       [1850 – 1939])
       >
       > Chp 18   Solar Heating in Early America [1200– 1912]
       >
       > Chp 19  An American Revival [1931 – 1950s]
       >
       > Chp 20   Solar Collectors for House Heating [1882 – 1962]
       >
       > V Photovoltaics
       >
       > Chp 21   From Selenium to Silicon [1876 –]
       >
       > Chp 22   Saved by the Space Race[1958-]
       >
       > Chp 23   From Space to Earth [1968-]
       >
       > VI The modern Era
       >
       > Chp 24   Prelude to the Embargo [1945 -1973]
       >
       > Chp 25   Solar Successes in the 1970s and 1980s
       >
       > Chp 26   America’s First Solar City [1920s -]
       >
       > Chp 27   Solar Water Heating Worldwide, Part 2 [1973-]
       >
       > Chp 28   Photovoltaics for Every Rooftop [1978 -]
       >
       > Chp 29   Better Cells, Cheaper Cells [1956 -]
       >
       > Epilogue – Epilogue
       >
       > Author: John Perlin
       >
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       THEY PRACTICAL, INTELLIGENT, DECENT, HONEST PEOPLE WHO KNEW (as
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       SCARCE in order to cash in on it with total disregard for the
       biosphere. THAT is what the &#129430; hydrocarbon hellspawn are
       all about, NOT about providing cheap energy for civilization as
       they &#128520;mendaciously claim. Kill the STUPID, LYING,
       PREDATORY CAPITALIST  "fossil fuels are cheap" mantra or let THE
       STUPID, WAR LOVING, PROFIT WORSHIPPING ARSE HOLES WHO PUSH IT
       KILL THE BIOSPHERE!
       CHOOSE OUR FUTURE:
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       fuel crazies and PASS THIS ON with or without attribution. It's
       time we called these ignorant forks on the last century of BS
       PRO-Fossil Fuel propaganda, lies and distortions about the
       history of human energy use in general and renewable energy use
       in particular, the laws of thermodynamics and common sense. The
       Social Darwinism based, conscience free, evil, greedball
       STUPIDITY called "Game" theory is behind the fossil fueler
       twisted Predatory Capitalist "caloric intake is IT" mindset.
       Reject it and adopt respect for all life as you respect yourself
       or die stupid.
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