After gathering detritus for 60 years , one of the first forward-looking solar cells ever built was recently uncovered and sell at auction bridge . It still works ! Take whatever thatoriginal Energizer bunnywas claiming in 1989 and bestow another “ … and going . ”
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Solar engineering have been around since the nineteenth century , but this British orb , made in 1950 , is one of the earliest juncture semiconductor solar electric cell ever create . An unnamed tinker in Surrey , England , created it to prove to his friends that he was n’t a birdbrain with all his solar talk . Not a loon at all , it seems . Perhaps even a visionary .
Well possibly not that , either . Solar cell are still largely inefficient and are still being refined importantly today . This six tenner old equipment generates only 1.5 V of electricity . But the fact that it ’s shape at all just goes to show that sunshine is a pretty dependable pardner in this whole energy - making endeavor . [ Daily Mail ]
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