The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses | Distillations

“Telkes, meanwhile, became a star in the lively but increasingly irrelevant world of solar-heating research, which gradually faded in prominence as nuclear power and cheap Middle Eastern petroleum conquered the energy industry. She presented at conferences and proposed a version of the Dover Sun House for Manhattan, which won her a job at New York University.”

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Direct Normal Solar Irradiance (Annual Average) Source: NREL ( National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Thumbnail Image: The Sun photographed at 304 angstroms by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA 304) of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This is a false-color image of the Sun observed in the extreme ultraviolet region of the spectrum. Sourced from Wikipedia Commons ( Public Domain)