[Marxism] "Major Discovery" From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution

[Eli Stephens]

Something I posted back on my blog in July:

Guess the solar power advocate

Who said this?

     "Some day some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing up 
sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire. I'll do 
the trick myself if some one else doesn't get at it.

     "Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity . . . the trick [is], 
you see, to concentrate the juice and liberate it as you needed it. . . . This 
scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of—it is so wasteful. . 
. . When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; 
until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces 
and thus get all of our power."

Answer: the person who was an early advocate of turning sunlight into 
electricity to replace burning things (oil and coal) was also instrumental in 
turning electricity into light...Thomas Edison, who said the above in 1910, 
almost 100 years ago.


On a slightly more substantive note, visit this page:
  http://eands.caltech.edu/ESarchive-frame.html
for a series of articles summarizing a variety of the latest efforts to harvest 
and store solar energy.


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