Everything Old IS New Again! Ideas on Solar Energy from the October 1934 Issue of Popular Science.

By Andrew Stone • March 19th, 2008

It is funny how there are no new ideas. Just good old ideas that were left by the wayside.

In October of 1934 Popular Science published this article on Solar Energy and the future that it would hold for us. Why does it seem today that we are just getting to the level of information that they had in 1934? Coal and Oil were cheap and easy for so long we forgot the better way.

While you may sound like you heard it earlier today, this was written in 1934

“SUNSHINE, our greatest source of potential power, is now largely wasted. It is highly probable, however, that a few years hence science will find a way to harness the mighty energy of the sun’s radiation. Solar engines and solar heating apparatus will then make it economically practicable for us to use at least a small portion of our now-wasted sunshine to run our factories, light our streets, cook our food, and warm our houses. In the United States we use, each year, something like a half billion tons of coal, a half billion barrels of oil, and fifty billion horsepower hours of water power for heat, light, and power.”

Source: blog.modernmechanix.com

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