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Nuclear or solar?

The history of energy: Nuclear or solar that was the question in the early 1950s. U.S. President Eisenhower urged the United Nations to bet on nuclear energy to counteract the Soviet propaganda against the American atom bomb. Atoms for peace was the catchword of the day.

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pv magazine

21 Apr 2011

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, the spring of 1954 was the best of times and the worst of times for solar energy. In spring 1954, scientists at Bell Laboratories announced the greatest breakthrough in solar technology of the twentieth century – the development of a material capable of directly converting enough sunlight into electricity for generating …

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