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This Will Never Work...Or Will It?
Apr. 17th, 2007 01:20 amHarnessing the Wind - Time Magazine - September 1941
"Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes—the size and shape of a bomber's wings—began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland [Vermont]. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts—enough electricity to light 2,000 homes."
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Sun Fuel - Time Magazine -April 1924
"Dr. Charles G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution (TIME, May 5) made a solar cooker at Mt. Vernon, Calif., which so concentrated the rays of the sun that the temperature of the oven was 175° Centigrade.
Sad to say, the oil circulating system sprang a leak, soaked the insulation with oil, and the heat set fire to and destroyed the machine. Dr. Abbot is now rebuilding the cooker and expects to succeed in demonstrating the possibility of a kitchen stove heated by sun rays."
( Yet more historic energy tidbits... )
"Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes—the size and shape of a bomber's wings—began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland [Vermont]. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts—enough electricity to light 2,000 homes."
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Sun Fuel - Time Magazine -April 1924
"Dr. Charles G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution (TIME, May 5) made a solar cooker at Mt. Vernon, Calif., which so concentrated the rays of the sun that the temperature of the oven was 175° Centigrade.
Sad to say, the oil circulating system sprang a leak, soaked the insulation with oil, and the heat set fire to and destroyed the machine. Dr. Abbot is now rebuilding the cooker and expects to succeed in demonstrating the possibility of a kitchen stove heated by sun rays."
( Yet more historic energy tidbits... )
