@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 1 year agoIf the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@alvvaysonlink9•1 year agoIndeed, efficiency. Semiconductors allow modern computing power, efficient solar panels and efficient LED lighting. That said. I am still skeptical those panels worked, as in - produced a technically and economically viable level of output. There was a lot of vaporware during that time.
minus-squareTWeaKlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThat’s my impression also. The article mentions that he didn’t capitulate to the kidnapper’s demands, yet still his business fizzled out, and then it just glosses straight over it.
Indeed, efficiency.
Semiconductors allow modern computing power, efficient solar panels and efficient LED lighting.
That said. I am still skeptical those panels worked, as in - produced a technically and economically viable level of output.
There was a lot of vaporware during that time.
That’s my impression also. The article mentions that he didn’t capitulate to the kidnapper’s demands, yet still his business fizzled out, and then it just glosses straight over it.