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"Science and science fiction, how do you even distinguish the two?"
- Jerry Pournelle
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| Solar Window | ||
| A transparent material that also collects solar energy. |
I admit, I'm on the fence about this one.
| A shadow passed across one huge solar window of the leisure-den.
Hal ran across the room, pressed his face against the den. It was a copter. No doubt about it. And he’d seen the word Police on its side in super-da-glo, burning through the dense rain. |
| Technovelgy from Noah,
by Charles B. Beckman, Jr.. Published by Orbit in 1954 Additional resources -
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Compare to the more straightforward (but less predictive) solar glass Efficiency (2022) by Paolo Bacigalupi.
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