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NEWS ARTICLE: Solar Energy's
Cloudy Past
San
Francisco Chronicle.com
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer
Publication Date: 02/16/04
Advocates say 50-year-old industry is finally in a
position to heat up.
Fifty years ago, scientists at Bell Laboratories unveiled
the first modern solar cell, using a silicon semiconductor
to convert light into electricity.
Their demonstration inspired a 1954 New York Times
article to predict that solar cells would eventually
lead "to the realization of one of mankind's most
cherished dreams -- the harnessing of the almost limitless
energy of the sun.'' Read
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