Featured in Catching the sun – 03-2010

Connecting Australia

The story of solar electricity: The ninth part of our series with chapters from John Perlins book From Space to Earth reports how John Oades, an engineer at GTE, brought his solar-powered telecommunications repeater to Australia.

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pv magazine

16 Sep 2010

Six years after launching the product in the United States, General Telephone & Electronics Corporation sold more than one thousand solar-powered repeaters, resulting in a multimillion-dollar worldwide business. “The big appeal and fanfare,” according to Bill Hampton, “were the solar panels”. Since John Oades’ work intrigued those in the telecommunications business, both Oades and Bill …

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