A Brief History of Solar Energy (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2023-11-13

Everything You Wanted to Know.  The host for this show is Mitch Ewan.  The guest is Toby Kinkaid.  

Solar energy powers our natural world - why not the industrial world?  Can a modern world be solar powered?  'Spaceship Earth' has over 8 billion souls aboard - can solar solar energy power everything we need?  This episode examines a 'brief history of solar energy' and talk about how solar energy use by people has evolved and how solar energy has always been the center of modern living from city design to modern architecture.  All our agriculture is solar powered - without photosynthesis we don't breathe (Oxygen) or eat (Base of the food web nutrition). Toby Kinkaid explores the technology of solar energy from its roots in solar thermal and city design in Ancient Greece, to modern solar thermal power plants and solar electric technology (photovoltaics).  It explores the nature of sunlight, a brief history of its development, and uses for all types of solar applications powering our modern world.

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