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...characteristic which gives the ionosphere its name and usefulness to man is the fact that at his great height, where atmospheric pressure is almost at a vacuum stage, and the atmosphere receives the full intensity of the ultraviolet sunlight, atoms are readily ionized...
...liberal being one with both eyes open to see that an auto moves faster than an oxcart, that trees grow better in sunlight, that all men are not created free and equal...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston speaks to almost anybody, but his thoughts are definitely heavenward. He is 77, and in his old age he broods much about the vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing...
There are three major ways of harnessing sunlight directly; mechanical (concentrating the rays with parabolic reflectors); electrical (using photoelectric cells to convert light energy into electricity); chemical (imitating the natural photosynthesis of plants). Since plants themselves store solar energy, there is also the possibility of using plants themselves for fuel-e.g., powdered cornstalks instead of powdered coal. Last year sun-minded Mr. Cabot gave Harvard $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants store solar energy (TIME, June...
...rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that the burning tin touched his bare shoulder, sending a delightful spasm of pain through his core, he could see down the steep slate roof to the turgid Charles far below, wandering aimlessly between green banks and slatternly factories...