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Frank Shuman: Finding The Future In Tacony, A Century Ago
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Frank Shuman: Finding The Future In Tacony, A Century Ago

The next episode of the rebooted Cosmos television series is bound to ruffle some feathers as it takes on climate change and the carbon-based reasons for it. But the topic, and ways to combat it, are nothing new. Over a hundred years ago, Frank Shuman devised a prototype for solar power in Tacony—then took it to Egypt to put it to work irrigating the Nile


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