Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruce Chalmers, a Harvard scientist, is working to develop a new solar battery that would harness the sun's energy and supply cheap power. Experts say the battery could help ease the burden of energy shortages...
Chalmers, McKay Professor of Metallurgy, is collaborating with the Tyco Labs in Waltham in an attempt to perfect a process which would convert solar energy into inexpensive industrial power...
...past, the cost of converting solar energy has been prohibitive, for solar batteries require the expensive slicing of silicon crystals...
...official at Tyco said a successful solar energy plant would be non-polluting, without moving parts, and based on a free and infinite energy source. With Chalmers and Tyco's solar battery a solution to the energy crisis may be not far away...
...earth and the population as a whole transcended everyday life." For him, the U.S. space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel. "In all the history of mankind," Sagan writes, "there will be only one generation that will be first to explore the Solar System, one generation for which, in childhood, the planets are distant and indistinct discs moving through the night sky, and for which, in old age, the planets are places, diverse new worlds in the course of exploration...