America’s two-century search for a more perfect power
popular mechanics
Solar Vs. Atomic – 1953
A persistent lesson in green tech history is that, since the advent on the nuclear physics, solar and atomic power advocates have spent a lot of time and resources opposing each other. The atomic power industry clearly had some deeper pockets and won out most of the time. Case-in-point is this article from Popular Mechanics, [...]
Electrical Generation as a Part-Time Job for Kids
Forget raising pigs, wind turbines are where the money is at.
At least that could have been true in 1933, according to this article from Popular Mechanix. In it L.G. Heimpel, an agricultural professor at MacDonald College in Quebec, argues that your average farm boy could making a little extra cash by charging people’s batteries with [...]
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