Featured in Triple Green – 01-2010

Working on the railroad

The story of solar electricity: The seventh part of our series highlighting chapters from John Perlin’s book, From Space to Earth, tells how the American railroad tuned to photovoltaics.

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pv magazine

14 Sep 2010

Solar Power Corporation initiated its plan to market solar cells on earth around the time the world’s space programs were winding down after the completion of the United States’ Apollo program, which was capped by the historic moon walk. Those associated with the space race began to worry about their professional futures. To ameliorate the …

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