A solar-powered future imagined in 1918Sourced
A century-old science-fiction story featured spies after solar technology.
Ukrainian mathematician Mykola Chaikovsky wrote By the Power of the Sun in 1918. It imagined an independent Ukraine leading in solar power while foreign spies sought its technology, and included an early radiotelephone concept.
Yesterday's imagined future can look different today.
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