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The self-flagellation has gotten too extreme. Photovoltaics were invented in the US, and the US helped subsidize it to the point where they were an economically
by ericd 1mo ago
The self-flagellation has gotten too extreme. Photovoltaics were invented in the US, and the US helped subsidize it to the point where they were an economically viable source of energy.
- adaml_623 1mo agoWikipedia says invented in France and developed by the Germans and Japanese. Do you have some references for US involvement?
- bigDinosaur 1mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#History "1954 – The first practical photovoltaic cell was publicly demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.[27] The inventors were Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson.[28]" The references are on Wikipedia. Maybe do the most basic thing in Wikipedia and click on some links to the related pages before asking for sources. One can still quibble that 'first practical' is indeed different from 'first' but the practical part is the part that actually matters in this argument anyway (i.e. solar rollout). (also, of course it was Bell Labs.)
- ericd 1mo ago>(also, of course it was Bell Labs.) Haha my exact reaction when I first found out.
- dgellow 1mo ago> the US helped subsidize it to the point where they were an economically viable source of energy Something one specific party has been fighting against for decades