Featured in A safe pair of hands – 08-2014

Its unstoppable

The history of solar energy: John Perlins latest book, Let it Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy, is a new expanded edition of his 1980 classic, A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology. pv magazine spoke to Perlin about fascinating new discoveries, what people today can learn from the solar engineers of ancient times, and the prospects of solar for future generations.

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pv magazine

11 Aug 2014

pv magazine: How would you describe the book? John Perlin: What the book does is differentiate all of the solar technologies. Through telling stories of the different technologies and how they work, people understand what you can do with the various aspects of solar energy. All these are told in story form using people. Because …

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