Renewable Energy: Sunlight Beacon

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

155

Date Released

1975

Length of issue (in feet)

498

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 10

Summary

COI synopsis: The coal and oil we rely on for fuel will one day run out; even the fuel for conventional nuclear reactors is in short supply. Yet every day the sun pumps a massive amount of energy into the earth and its atmosphere - our only unlimited source until a fusion reactor, a man-made sun on earth, is made to work. This issue takes a quick look round at some of the proposed new methods for harnessing the enormous natural flow of renewable energy. A terrestial application of that product of the space age, the silicon solar cell; a remote beacon takes power from the sun.

Keywords

Communications; Science and technology; Safety devices; Space; Energy resources

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/155

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Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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