AT LAST! A LOW COST SOLAR FURNACE!
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ABOVE, LEFT: Charles Curnutt demonstrates the action that boom looks hot, you're right! It was running about of his ingenious $13.50 solar tracking mechanism. 1,600?F when this photo was taken. BELOW, CENTER: ABOVE, RIGHT: The backside of the Curnutt solar That's live steam . . . generated by the sun! BELOW, furnace may look like ""the running gears of a grass- RIGHT: Mr. Curnutt reflected in a few of his solar furhopper"" . . . but it's simple, rugged, and trouble- nace's mirrors. FAR BELOW: ""Send on the sunshine,"" free. BELOW, LEFT: If you think the boiler on the end of says Charles Curnutt, ""1'm ready for the Solar Age.""
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Which means-now that we've all started to realize that solar really is the energy source of the futurethat our society should be launching a massive program designed to [1] develop the use of the sun's rays on a crash basis, and [2] promote this use on as decentralized a scale as possible. That is: [A] All our big government agencies and giant corporations and large foundations should be pouring money, staff, and technology into solar energy research at the expense of shale oil, nuclear, etc., development ... and [B] top priority should be given to the conception and manufacture of smallscale hardware that you can install in your own back yard to make your family energy selfsufficient, instead of to the design and construction of monster equipment that only large utilities and overstuffed government bureaus can afford and control.
Right? Right. That's what should be done. Unfortunately for us all, however, that's not the way society seems to work these days. Because-Number Onethe U.S. government and every other major government in the world plus all the giant corporations plus all the large foundations are still squandering billions of dollars on shale oil development and nuclear development and the development of other "dead horses" ... for every million they're investing in solar energy. And- Number Twowhat little is being spent on solar projects is being spent almost entirety on research designed to put the control of solar power in the hands of the already-big, the alreadyrich, and the alreadypowerful . . . at the expense of all the world's "little people" (that's you and me, folks).
(A wonderful example of the duplicity of our elected officials in .this area: Little Jimmy Carterzipped around the country on May 3-Sun Day-this year giving glow. ing speeches about the future of solar energy here in the United States. Everybody knows that, because it was widely reported in the newspapers and on the evening TV news. What wasn't so widely reported, however, is the fact that - Just before leaving the White House to make those speeches-the same Little Jimmy Carter rejected a Department of Energy proposal to add $100 million to the federal government's paltry solar energy research budget ... a budget, of course, which is dwarfed by the funds appropriated to the shale oil, nuclear, etc., boondoggles. That's called "telling the troops what they want to hear while cutting them off at the knees".)
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