Prachi Srivastava on Nostr: Fascinating. Canadian inventor, George Cove invented household solar in *1905*, but ...
Fascinating. Canadian inventor, George Cove invented household solar in *1905*, but was kidnapped in 1909.
'The condition for his release required forgoing his solar patent and shutting down the company. Cove refused'.
'In a world in which Cove succeeded and solar competed with fossil fuels from the get go, it would have trumped coal by as early as 1997 – when Bill Clinton was president and the Spice Girls were in their heyday. In reality, this event occurred in 2017.'
https://theconversation.com/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-hadnt-been-kidnapped-would-fossil-fuels-have-dominated-the-20th-century-the-way-they-did-215300
'The condition for his release required forgoing his solar patent and shutting down the company. Cove refused'.
'In a world in which Cove succeeded and solar competed with fossil fuels from the get go, it would have trumped coal by as early as 1997 – when Bill Clinton was president and the Spice Girls were in their heyday. In reality, this event occurred in 2017.'
https://theconversation.com/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-hadnt-been-kidnapped-would-fossil-fuels-have-dominated-the-20th-century-the-way-they-did-215300