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Solar Reception Screen
A device for converting sunlight to electricity (Read the full article)
| "not good matter
" (sriram 1/18/2005 11:25:13 PM ) |
| "The Douglas-Martin Sunpower Screens are invented in an earlier Heinlein work called "Let There be Light". This short also presages "The Man in the White Suit" in discussing how the status quo in Big Biz attempt to throttle inventions which threaten the current paradigm." (John Pfeifer 8/1/2006 8:32:45 AM ) |
| "Heinlein also mentions sunpower screens in his 1940 novella Coventry (published a few months after Let There Be Light." (Bill Christensen 8/3/2006 7:59:44 PM ) |
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