The 1909 incident may have cost the industry decades of progress – and the planet huge amounts of damaging carbon emissions.
  • alvvayson@lemmy.world
    51·
    8 个月前

    Indeed, efficiency.

    Semiconductors allow modern computing power, efficient solar panels and efficient LED lighting.

    That said. I am still skeptical those panels worked, as in - produced a technically and economically viable level of output.

    There was a lot of vaporware during that time.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      8 个月前

      That’s my impression also. The article mentions that he didn’t capitulate to the kidnapper’s demands, yet still his business fizzled out, and then it just glosses straight over it.