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Popular Science: Harnessing the Sun

By Bill Gourgey

Popular Science: Harnessing the Sun
Energy & Climate
  • Publisher: Popular Science
  • Editor: Corinne Iozzio
  • Published: July 14, 2021

Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry, published a story in November 1929 in Popular Science that described his improvements to solar-thermal power, claiming that the tech would soon generate enough electricity for everyone. Unfortunately, coal got in the way. Check out the full story in Popular Science‘s Summer Edition, Heat.

Harnessing the Sun

Many thanks to Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science’s Editor in Chief.


Series: Articles & Essays Tagged with: Popular Science

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