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Solar Energy

Date released

19 Sep 1960

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

299

NoS ID

120947

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - In Oxted, Surrey, solar panels on its roof power a veteran car, a 1912 Baker electric brougham; solar panels in the centre of a model train set power the train; and a walkie-talkie fitted with...

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Solar Sinter (2011)

Subject

Energy; Technology

In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In...

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Jimmy Carter’s solar energy proposal (1979)

Genre

News report; Speech

Andrew Manderstam reports from Washington on US President Jimmy Carter’s proposal for twenty per cent of America’s energy needs to be generated from solar sources by the turn of the century. Includes...

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Energy - the future [4 Programmes] - Part 2 (1986)

The Royal Society of Edinburgh organised a two-day conference on the future of energy at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow. The speakers comprised many of the key people in the field of...

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Alan Freeman on solar-powered tricycle (1979)

Genre

Interview

Electrical engineer Alan Freeman on having converted solar energy to power a tricycle, the electric battery cells having been provided by companies as an investment in the future of transport. Male...

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Power from the Sun

Date released

24 Jul 1958

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

58/59

NoS ID

108245

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

The biggest solar oven in the world is shown to a gathering of international solar power experts in the Pyrenees.

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Taylor Woodrow and alternative energy sources (1979)

Genre

Interview

Dr Roger Brown of the research and development division of construction company Taylor Woodrow, on the company’s involvement in developing alternative energy sources to generate electricity, from early...

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Jimmy Carter on energy crisis (1979)

Genre

Speech; News report

Live coverage from the White House of US President Jimmy Carter address to the nation on energy policy and energy crisis and US confidence. He promises to end American dependence on foreign oil and develop...

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Sun Furnace Starts Work

Date released

9 Oct 1958

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

58/81

NoS ID

108355

Story no

3 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

In Massachusetts solar heat is used in nuclear protection experiment.

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Last manned offshore lighthouse goes automatic (1996)

Genre

Interview

Britain’s last manned offshore lighthouse says good-bye to its keepers today for the final time. From tomorrow the Hanois lighthouse in the Channel Islands is to be automated and run by solar power. Head...

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