In 1913, in what is now an affluent suburb of Cairo, Egypt, an American engineer named Frank Shuman built the world's first solar thermal power station, which pumped 100 gallons/second of Nile water into nearby cotton fields. He later declared in the New York Times: "After our stores of oil and coal are exhausted the human race can receive unlimited power from the rays of the… Read More
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