THE HISTORY OF SUN IN THE WORLD

Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story Of Solar Energy

John Perline, September 19, 2013 (Solar Industry)

“…Many believe that solar energy is a late-twentieth-century phenomenon, yet 6,000 years ago the Stone Age Chinese built their homes so that every one of them made maximum use of the sun's energy in winter…[and, according to John Perlin’s Let It Shine,] the sun heated every house [twenty-five hundred years ago] in most Greek cities…[E]nterprising businessmen established a thriving solar water-heater industry in California beginning in the 1890s…[and] the first photovoltaic array was installed on a New York City rooftop in 1884…[D]ocuments suppressed by the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan administrations…[show solar energy could now have] a much larger role in the American energy mix…” click here for more

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